Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions

ISBN-13: 9789463729055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021

Emily Lyle

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Preface (Emily Lyle)
Introduction (Emily Lyle)
CELTIC TRADITION
1 The Nature of the Fomoiri: The Dark Other in the Medieval Irish Imagination (John Carey)
2 Tuatha Dé and Fomoiri in Cath Maige Tuired (Elizabeth A. Gray)
3 Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity (Ina Tuomala)
4 How Time Flies in the Cath Maige Tuired (Joseph Falaky Nagy)
5 The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination (Alexandra Bergholm)
6 Myth as a Historical Resource: The Case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg) (Kevin Murray)
7 Hagiography as Political Documentation: The Case of Betha Beraigh? (The Life of St Berach) (Ksenia Kudenko)
SCANDINAVIAN TRADITION
8 Baldr's Achilles' Heel? About the Scandinavian Three-God B-Bracteates (Karen Bek-Pederson)
9 The Cult of Ô¿inn in Early Scandinavian Aristocracy (Joshua Rood)
10 Myth and History in Saxo (Morten Warmind)
11 The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as Disguised Theogony (Emily Lyle)
12 Loki the Slandered God? Selective Omission of Skaldic Citations in Snorri Sturluson's Edda (James Parkhouse)
13 Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History (Jonas Wellendorf)
Index