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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV012697315
    Format: LXXXII, 412 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 2. ed., rev. by A. R. Taylor
    Language: English
    Subjects: Scandinavian Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Skandinavien ; Literatur ; Geschichte 800-1300 ; Altnordisch ; Grammatik ; Altnordisch ; Literatur ; Anthologie
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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers
    UID:
    b3kat_BV046343673
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9781783748297 , 9781783748303 , 9781783748310 , 9781783748327 , 178374829X
    Content: "The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem's major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists."--Publisher's website
    Note: Acknowledgements -- Signs and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Beowulf, an Early Anglo-Saxon Epic -- Part I. Ice, Candle and Cross: Images of the Giant Sword in Beowulf. 2. The Giant Sword and the Ice ; 3. The Giant Sword and the Candle ; 4. The Giant Sword and the Cross -- Part II. Sun-Swords and Moon-Monsters: On the Theft and Recovery of Sunlight in Beowulf and Other Early Northern Texts. 5. Whose Sword Is It, Anyway? ; 6. Ing, Ingvi-Freyr and Hroðgar ; 7. Freyr, Skírnir and Gerðr ; 8. Lævateinn and the Maelstrom-Giantess ; 9. Freyr's Solar Power and the Purifying Sword ; 10. Freyr, Heorot and the Hunt for the Solar Stag ; 11. A Tale of Two Creatures: The Theft and Recovery of Sunlight in Riddle 29 ; 12. Another Tale of Two Creatures: The Loss and Recovery of the Solar Draught-Beast in Wið Dweorh ; 13. The Solar Antler in Sólarljóð ; 14. Grendel, His Mother, and Other Moon-Monsters ; 15. The Sun in the Pike ; 16. Conclusion: Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Song of Ice and Fire -- Supplementary Note -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- Bibliography
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, hardback ISBN 978-1-78374-828-0
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, paperback ISBN 978-1-78374-827-3
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Beowulf
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
    URL: Cover
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  • 3
    Book
    Book
    Oxford : Clarendon Pr.
    UID:
    b3kat_BV020389530
    Format: LXXXIV, 383 S. 8"
    Language: English
    Subjects: Scandinavian Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Skandinavien ; Literatur ; Geschichte 800-1300 ; Altnordisch ; Grammatik ; Altnordisch ; Literatur ; Anthologie
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  • 4
    UID:
    gbv_1810205743
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9518584206 , 9789518584202
    Series Statement: Studia Fennica. Litteraria
    Note: Helsinki sive in Tartarum descendens sive Katabasis: ad urbis nomen lusus /Hans Nollet --Helsinki or Sinking down into Hell or Katabasis: Pun on the Name of the Town /Hans Nollet --Introduction /Frog, Satu Grünthal, Kati Kallio, and Jarkko Niemi --I An Overview --Metrics in practice /Frog, Satu Grünthal, Kati Kallio, and Jarkko Niemi --II From Metre to Performance --Performance, Music, and Metre in Kalevala-Metric Oral Poetry /Kati Kallio --Styles of Northern Uralic Sung Meters in Comparison /Jarkko Niemi --Towards a Generative Model of Ottoman Aruz to Usul Textsetting /Nicolas Royer-Artuso --"Not Singing, Not Saying" : Performance Flexibility of Norwegian Stev and Re-Performance of Accentual Poetry, such as Old English and Old Norse Poetry /Jacqueline Pattison Ekgren and Joe Siri Ekgren --Poetic Language and Music of the hudhud ni nosi, a Yattuka Funeral Chant, the Philippines /Sergei B. Klimenko, Maria V. Stanyukovich, and Galina B. Sychenko --III Poets and Metres over Time --"Do Not Think Whether This Is Poetry or Prose" : Metre and Poetics in the Works of Lauri Viita /Erika Laamanen --A Case Study : Dactylic Hexameter in Justus Lipsius's Poetry /Hans Nollet --Many Ways to Use and Play with Rhymes : The Poet Otto Manninen and the Rhymes in Finnish Rhymed Couplets /Hanna Karhu --IV Language and Poetic Form --Metrics of Runosongs of the Border Area : Quantity and Broken Lines in Seto Songs /Janika Oras and Mari Sarv --Migration of Poetic Formulae : Icelandic Post-Medieval þulur /Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir --Metrical Entanglement : The Interface of Language and Metre /Frog.
    Language: English
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    London : Reaktion Books
    UID:
    b3kat_BV045170568
    Format: 328 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    ISBN: 1780238975 , 9781780238975
    Content: Dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled mankind for thousands of years. From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation's Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to those dragon-women posing a threat to male authority, dragons have a wide variety of forms and meanings. But there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their formidable power and, as a consequence, our need to overcome them, to appease them or in some way to assume their power as our own. How can this be explained? Is it our need to impose order on chaos in the person of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of Nature unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing mystery of all - our mortality? Martin Arnold traces the history of ideas about dragons, from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones, and asks what exactly it might be in our imaginations that appears to have necessitated such a creature
    Note: Rezensiert in: Mediaevistik 32 (2019), Seite 254-255 (Albrecht Classen) , Introduction: the origin of dragons -- Dragons in Greek and Roman mythology -- Dragons in the Bible and saints' lives -- The Germanic dragon, Part 1: old Norse mythology and old English literature -- The Germanic dragon, Part 2: sagas of ancient times -- Dragons in beastiaries and Celtic mythology -- Asian and East Asian dragons -- Dragons in the anti-establishment folktale -- European dragons as fictions and facts: from medieval romance to the nursery dragon -- The old dragon revives: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis -- 'A wilderness of dragons' -- George R. R. Martin's dragons and the question of power -- Conclusion: the dragon and fear
    Language: English
    Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
    RVK:
    Keywords: Drache ; Kunst ; Literatur ; Mythologie ; Geschichte
    Author information: Arnold, Martin 1951-
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  • 6
    Book
    Book
    Oxford : Clarendon Press
    UID:
    gbv_083734562
    Format: LXXXII, 412 S , Ill
    Edition: 2. ed., rev. by A.R. Taylor
    ISBN: 0198111053
    Language: Undetermined
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  • 7
    Book
    Book
    Oxford : Clarendon Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV026561336
    Format: LXXXII, 412 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 2. ed., rev. by A. R. Taylor, reprinted
    Language: English
    Subjects: Scandinavian Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Skandinavien ; Literatur ; Geschichte 800-1300 ; Altnordisch ; Grammatik ; Altnordisch ; Literatur ; Anthologie
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  • 8
    UID:
    gbv_278567649
    Format: IX, 193 S.
    ISBN: 8774929658
    Series Statement: Studia borealia 1
    Uniform Title: Saga og samfund 〈engl.〉
    Note: Includes bibliographical references ([170]-185) and index
    Language: English
    Keywords: Einführung
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  • 9
    UID:
    gbv_180642181X
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 293 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    ISBN: 9789004511910
    Series Statement: Explorations in medieval culture volume 21
    Content: "This volume showcases a range of different approaches to strangers and strangeness across medieval western Europe. It focuses on how communities responded to the arrival of strangers and to different ways in which individuals and groups were constructed as estranged. Further, it reflects on different forms of border-crossing, from lived experience to literary imagination and from specific journeys in precise contexts to the conceptualisation of the shift from life to death. In the range of its contributions - applying linguistic, historical, archaeological, architectural, archival, literary, and theological analyses - it seeks to bring together disciplines and geographical areas of study that are too often strangers to one another in medieval studies. Contributors are Sherif Abdelkarim, Anna Adamska, Adrien Carbonnet, Wim De Clercq, Florian Dolberg, Joshua S. Easterling, Susan Irvine, Marco Mostert, Richard North, James Plumtree, Euan McCartney Robson, Beatrice Saletti, Simon C. Thomson and Gerben Verbrugghe"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Acknowledgements -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: fearing, facing, and being a stranger / S.C. Thomson -- Studying communication in the margins of medieval society / Marco Mostert -- HITting on migration in the murky Middle Ages: advocating an interdisciplinary approach, a case study in Old English/Old Norse language contact / Florian Dolberg -- The language of the mute strangers: the ambivalent position of the German language in the late medieval Polish Kingdom / Anna Adamska -- How foreigners entered Italian cities in the fifteenth century: the case of Bologna / Beatrice Saletti -- Little Flanders beyond Wales: the historical context of Flemish settlement landscapes in South Pembrokeshire / Gerben Verbrugghe and Wim De Clercq -- Repopulating the city with strangers: the forced colonization of Arras by the king of France Louis XI (1479-1484) / Adrien Carbonnet -- Strangers in the cathedral: place, landscape and nostalgia in Symeon of Durham's Libellus de Exordio / Euan McCartney Robson -- Resident stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz / Richard North -- The perils of Medieval bridges: Gregory, Grendel and Gawain / Susan Irvine -- Strange confessions: salvation and prayers for the dead in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogue on Miracles / Joshua S. Easterling -- Placing the green children of Woolpit / James Plumtree -- Afterword / Sherif Abdelkarim -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004425491
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strangers at the gate! Leiden : Brill, 2022 ISBN 9789004425491
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9004425497
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    Keywords: Europa ; Gemeinschaft ; Grenze ; Fremder ; Ausländer ; Geschichte 1100-1500 ; Aufsatzsammlung
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    London : Bloomsbury Academic | London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    UID:
    gbv_1883170680
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed
    ISBN: 9781350413313
    Content: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersection of national and social forces shape the study of religion in specific countries and contexts. It traces the establishment of the study of religions as an integrated part of Higher Education in Sweden and it critically examines the development of the most significant disciplines, themes and questions that form Religious Studies in Sweden. Demonstrating the interconnection between nationality and the formation of the academic study of religion, the book explores how Sweden is often described as the most secularised country in the world, yet the study of religions in Sweden has a long, rich, and diverse history. The book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of religions, and bring together the voices of 30 scholars
    Note: List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: The History of the Study of Religion in Sweden, Göran Larsson & Henrik Bogdan Göran Larsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Henrik Bogdan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Part I: Historical Approaches 1. Ancient Near Eastern Religions, Therese Rodin (Dalarna University, Sweden) and Heike Peter (Halmstad University, Sweden) 2. Old Norse Religion, Olof Sundqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3. Indigenous Religions, Daniel Andersson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Bodil Liljefors-Persson (Malmo University, Sweden) 4. Judaism, Svante Lundgren (Lund University, Sweden) and Martin Lund (Malmo University, Sweden) 5. Islam, Göran Larsson (Gothenburg University, Sweden), Susanne Olsson (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Simon Sorgenfrei (Södertörn University) 6. Indian Religions, Kristina Myrvold (Lund University, Sweden), Katarina Plank (Karlstad University, Sweden) and Ferdinando Sardella (Stockholm University) 7. Western Esotericism, Henrik Bogdan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 8. New Religious Movements and New Age Spirituality, Peter Åkerbäck (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Sanja Nilsson (Malmo University, Sweden) Part II: Social Scientific Approaches 9. Psychology of Religion, Göran Ståhle (Södertörn University, Sweden) and Tomas LIndgren (Umeå University, Sweden 10. Sociology of Religion, Magdalena Nordin (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Mia Lövheim (Uppsala University, Sweden) 11. Cognitive Studies of Religion, Jonas Svensson (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and Egil Asprem (Stockholm University, Sweden) 12. Religious Education, Olof Frank (University of Gothenburg) and Christina Osbeck (University of Gothenburg) Part III: Themes in the Study of Religion in Sweden 13.Comparative Studies ,Stefan Arvidsson (Linnaeus University) and Peter Jackson (Stockholm University, Sweden) 14. Ritual Studies, Anne-Christine Hornborg (Lund University, Sweden) 15. Lived Religion, Daniel Enstedt (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Jessica Moberg (University of Gothenburg) and Katarina Plank (Karlstadt University, Sweden) 16. Gender Studies, Manon Hedenborg White (Karlstadt University, Sweden) 17. Violence, Tomas Lindgren (Umeå University, Sweden), Göran Larsson (University of Gothenburg) and Isak Svensson (Uppsala University, Sweden) Afterword: Reflections on the Study of Religion in Sweden, Jenny Berglund (Stockholm University, Stockholm) and Tim Jensen(University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Index , Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781350413283
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781350413290
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781350413306
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781350413320
    Language: English
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