Hilda Ellis Davidson, Hilda Ellis Davidson

Roles of the Northern Goddess (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By investigating women's special skills related to goddess cults together with legends and popular traditions, the author explores the importance of the goddess as a subject for study today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134778010
• Artikelnr.: 42684121

Autorenporträt

Hilda Ellis Davidson has been a lecturer at Royal Holloway College and Birkbeck College, London, Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and President of the London Folklore Society. Her many publications include The Anglo-Saxon Sword (1962), Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (1964) and The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe (1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I Mistress of the Animals II Mistress of the Grainb III Mistress of Distaff and Loom IV Mistress of the Household V Mistress of Life and Death

Rezensionen

'Highly recommended [it] illuminate[s] a profound understanding of the goddess, heretofore largely neglected by scholars or else romanticized by popular books.' - Annabel Lee, Runa

'Highly recommended [it] illuminate[s] a profound understanding of the goddess, heretofore largely neglected by scholars or else romanticized by popular books.' - Annabel Lee, Runa