Jonas Wellendorf (Berkeley University of California)

Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia

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Produktbeschreibung

The first monograph in English on the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Contextualizes the canonical Prose Edda by drawing on a range of less well known texts. Translations are provided of all quotations from medieval texts.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781108424974
• ISBN-10: 110842497X
• Artikelnr.: 49389821

Autorenporträt

Jonas Wellendorf is an assistant professor in the Department of Scandinavian at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of multiple articles in journals and peer-reviewed anthologies and has also co-edited anthologies and an edition of an Old Norse rhetorical treatise.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Retying the bonds
2. The hierarchy of disbeliefs in antipagan polemics
3. Universalist aspirations in Hauksbók
4. The Byzantine Gods of Saxo Grammaticus
5. Gods and humans in the Prose Edda
Epilogue: Óðinn and Odysseus.