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• Title:Making the profane sacred in the Viking Age : essays in honour of Stefan Brink / edited by Irene García Losquiño, Olof Sundqvist, and Declan Taggart.
  
• ISBN:9782503586045
  250358604X
  9782503586052
  
• Publication:Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2020
  
• Physical Description:x, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  

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• Summary:"The term 'sacred' is often used in relation to the pre-Christian religions of Iron Age and medieval Scandinavia. But what did sacred really mean? What made something sacred for people? Why was one particular person, place, act, or text perceived to hold a sacral quality, while others remained profane? And what impact did such sacrality have on wider society, culture, politics, and economics, both for contemporaries and for future generations? This volume seeks to engage with such questions by drawing together essays from many of the pre-eminent scholars of Old Norse in order to reinterpret the concept of the sacred in the Viking Age North and to challenge pre-existing frameworks for understanding the sacred in this space and time. Including essays from Margaret Clunies Ross, Stephen Mitchell, John Lindow, and Judy Quinn, it is a treasury of commentary and information that ranges widely across theories and sources of evidence to present significant primary research and reconsiderations of existing scholarship. This edited collection is dedicated to Stefan Brink, an outstanding figure in the study of early Scandinavian language, society, and culture, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field of Old Norse studies."--Back cover.
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, v. 32
  Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; v. 32.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 310--330).
  
• Contents:What does heilagr mean in Old Norse? / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Landscape : sacred and profane / Jens Peter Schjødt -- Sacred and profane, visual and lived-in : a note on some creative tensions in the landscape / Mats Widgren -- Ritual places, sacral place-names, and wetlands : some spatial and archaeological contexts from the Baltic Island of Öland / Jan-Henrik Fallgren -- Ritual space and territorial boundaries in Scandinavia / Torun Zachrisson -- Karlevi : a Viking Age harbour on Öland / Per Vikstrand -- Stafgarþar revisited / Anders Andrén -- Sacredness lost : on the variable status of churches in the Middle Ages / Bertil Nilsson -- Tradition and ideology in Eddic poetry / John McKinnell -- Sacred hero, holy places : the Eddic Helgi-tradition / Carolyne Larrington -- Fifth-column mother: Týr's parentage according to Hymiskviða / Judy Quinn -- From legend to myth? / John Lindow -- The landscape of Thor worship in Sweden / Tarrin Wills -- Conversion, popular religion, and syncretism: some reflections / Anne-Sofie Gräslund -- Swines, Swedes, and fertility gods / Bo Gräslund -- The goddesses in the dark waters / Terry Gunnell -- Valho̜ll and the Swedish 'Valhall' Mountains of the Dead / Andreas Nordberg -- Place-names, periphrasis, and popular tradition: Odinic toponyms on Samsø / Stephen A. Mitchell -- Sacred sites and central places : experiences of multidisciplinary research projects / Charlotte Fabech and Ulf Näsman -- A bibliography of Stefan Brink's publications.
  
• Subjects:Mythology, Norse.
  Sacred space--Europe, Northern--History--To 1500.
  Mythology, Norse.
  Religion.
  Europe, Northern--Religion.
  Northern Europe.
  
• Also listed under:Losquiño, Irene García, 1984- editor.
  Sundqvist, Olof, editor.
  Taggart, Declan, editor.
  Brink, Stefan, honouree.
  Fiske Icelandic Collection.