The Semiotics of Fate, Death, and the Soul in Germanic Culture
Prisca Augustyn
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The Semiotics of Fate, Death, and the Soul in Germanic Culture

The Christianization of Old Saxon

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The ninth-century Old Saxon Heliand gospel yields seminal sets of words for fate and the self that paint the cultural background into which Christianity was introduced. The Heliand contains robust mythopoetic links to an Indo-European tradition, which were conducive to the synthesis of ancient mythological scenarios with the dogma of the immortal soul. Peirce's semiotic informs the linguistic analysis and promotes the ethnophilosophical description of the formation of belief, while the linguistic data inform the cultural analysis and substantiate the different levels of description in the semi...