This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine otherworlds of blessedness and immortality. Taking the mythologization of the Viking Age discovery of North America in the earliest extant acc…
This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine otherworlds of blessedness and immortality. Taking the mythologization of the Viking Age discovery of North America in the earliest extant acc…
"This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and …
This book offers a thorough investigation of Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru) through an international and comprehensive historical perspective. It traces Germanic Neopaganism’s genesis in German ultra-nationalist and occultist movements around 1900. Based on ethnographic rese…
Old Norse and Finnish religions and cultic place-names: based on papers read at the Symposium on Encounte…
by Symposium on Encounters Between Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names, Turku, Finland), Ahlbäck, Tore, Donnerska institutet för religionshistorisk och kulturhistorisk forskning
fromScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
Old norse and Finnish religions and cultic place-names: based on papers read at the Symposium on Encouter…
by Ahlbäck, Tore, Symposium on Encounters between Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names (1987, Turku)
fromDonnerska Institutet för Religionshistorisk och Kulturhisto…
Old Norse and Finnish religions and cultic place-names: based on papers read at the Symposium on Encounte…
by Symposium on Encounters Between Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names, Turku, Finland), Ahlbäck, Tore, Donnerska institutet för religionshistorisk och kulturhistorisk forskning
fromScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis