Between the Worlds

Contexts, Sources, and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-061881-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 722 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1325 g

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The rich corpus of literary otherworld journeys that has survived from the Scandinavian - and especially the Icelandic - Middle Ages is in many respects tied to a space 'Between the Worlds'. Every otherworld journey quite literally engages with a space 'between the worlds' in the sense that it plays itself out between this world and a world beyond, an otherworld. Yet this is not all. Also in terms of its cultural context this branch of the literature of the medieval North takes up a position situated midway between a broad range of poles. Texts from the Christian period treat pre-Christian mythology; allegedly pre-Christian material is studded with Christian motifs; Scandinavian texts adapt the learning and literature of the European continent, Ireland, and the classical Mediterranean; and Finnish narratives in turn appear to adapt Scandinavian narrative patterns. The volume presents a rich panorama of a broad range of very different - Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Ancient Near Eastern, and archaeological - perspectives on the topic of the 'otherworld journey', which contextualises the motif of the otherworld journey in Old Norse-Icelandic literature in an unprecedented breadth.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Scandinavian, Comparative and Religious Studies, arch

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heizmann, Wilhelm

Egeler, Matthias

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Über Autor(innen)

Wilhelm Heizmann; Matthias Egeler, LMU München.

Wilhelm Heizmann, LMU Munich, Matthias Egeler, LMU Munich