Iron Age myth and materiality : an archaeology of Scandinavia, AD 400-1000
Iron Age Myth and Materiality: An Archaeology of Scandinavia ad 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post Roman era and the European Migrations of the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the documentation of an oral past relates to its material embodiment
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xxx, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415606028, 9780415551182, 9780415606042, 9780415551199, 9780203829714, 0415606020, 0415551188, 0415606047, 0415551196, 0203829719
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pt. 1. A mythic narrative. The mythic cycle of Odin
pt. 2. Words of identity. Written sources on the pre-Christian past
Origin myths and political/ethnical affiliations
pt. 3. The constitution of 'otherness'. Embodied in animals
Other ways of 'being in the world'
pt. 4. Materiality matters. Commemorative places
The cosmic order of landscapes
pt. 5. The making of Norse mythology. Knowledge production reconsidered
Hypothesis I: the Huns in Scandinavia
Hypothesis II: Attila and the recasting of Scandinavian mythology
Stranger kings: intruders from the outside world