Stephen A. Mitchell

Old Norse Folklore (eBook, ePUB)

Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval Scandinavia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in this last area of western Europe to be Christianized. This volume not only considers these issues, but also pulls back the curtain on more obscure, yet important, corners of Nordic magico-religious tradition.

In these chapters, Stephen A. Mitchell draws on materials from many different periods of the vast Nordic world, stretching from Greenland to the Baltic, and examines such diverse witnesses as sagas, judicial records, ballads, synodal statutes, runes, proverbs, church murals, leechbooks, and the language used to discuss magic and its actors. Old Norse Folklore addresses how theology helped shape the Nordic magical world and how language can help reveal this world, how magic was used as a practical matter in, and what it meant philosophically to, the medieval Nordic world, and how inherited traditions between and among the historically connected societies of northern Europe impacted cultural developments in late medieval Scandinavia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501777516
• Artikelnr.: 73406877

Autorenporträt

Stephen A. Mitchell is the Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University. His research centers on the Nordic world in the medieval and early modern periods, and employs a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including performance theory, memory studies, anthropological linguistics, and other folklore-centered perspectives. He is the author of Heroic Sagas and Ballads and Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: NORMS AND NOMENCLATURE
1. Heresy and Heterodoxy in Medieval Scandinavia
2. The Pactum cum Diabolo and Nordic Magic
3. The n-Rune and Nordic Charm Magic
4. Warlocks, Valkyries and Varlets: A Prolegomenon to the Study of North
Sea Witchcraft Terminology
Part 2: PERFORMANCE AND PRESENTATION
5. For Scírnis and Nordic Charm Magic
6. Leechbooks, Manuals, and Grimoires: On the Early History of Magical
Texts in Scandinavia
7. "An Evil Woman Is the Devil's Door Nail": Probing the Proverbial and
Pictorial Patriarchate in Medieval Scandinavia
8. Magic in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Typology of Modes
Part 3: CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION
9. Notes on Historiolas, Referentiality, and Time in Nordic Magical
Traditions
10. Óðinn, Magic, and a Swedish Trial from 1484
11. DgF 526 "Lokket med runer," Memory, and Magic
12. Spirituality and Alchemy in Den vises sten (1379)