Lotte Hedeager

Iron Age Myth and Materiality

An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000

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Produktbeschreibung

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 around AD 400 up until the coming of Christianity around AD 1000

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780415606042
• ISBN-10: 0415606047
• Artikelnr.: 32699923

Autorenporträt

Lotte Hedeager is Professor of Archaeology and Head of the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: A Mythical Narrative 1. The mythical cycle of Odin
Part II: Words of Identity 2. Written sources on the pre-Christian past 3.
Origin myths and political/ethnical affiliations Part III: The Constitution
of 'Otherness' 4. Embodied in animals 5.Other ways of 'being in the world'
Part IV: Materiality Matters 6. Commemorative places 7. The cosmic order of
landscapes Part V: The Making of Norse Mythology 8. Knowledge production
reconsidered 9. Hypothesis I: The Huns in Scandinavia 10. Hypothesis II:
Attila and the recast of Scandinavian mythology 11. Stranger kings:
Intruders from the outside realm