Between the Worlds
Produktnummer:
18c25ae9d5b83d4ae3ac0ae7aea1ffb091
Themengebiete: | Afterlife comparison of religions mythology otherworld |
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Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 05.05.2020 |
EAN: | 9783110618815 |
Auflage: | 1 |
Sprache: | Deutsch Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 722 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Herausgeber: | Egeler, Matthias Heizmann, Wilhelm |
Verlag: | De Gruyter |
Untertitel: | Contexts, Sources, and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys |
Produktinformationen "Between the Worlds"
The rich corpus of literary otherworld journeys that has survived from the Scandinavian - and especially the Icelandic - Middle Ages is in many respects tied to a space 'Between the Worlds'. Every otherworld journey quite literally engages with a space 'between the worlds' in the sense that it plays itself out between this world and a world beyond, an otherworld. Yet this is not all. Also in terms of its cultural context this branch of the literature of the medieval North takes up a position situated midway between a broad range of poles. Texts from the Christian period treat pre-Christian mythology; allegedly pre-Christian material is studded with Christian motifs; Scandinavian texts adapt the learning and literature of the European continent, Ireland, and the classical Mediterranean; and Finnish narratives in turn appear to adapt Scandinavian narrative patterns. The volume presents a rich panorama of a broad range of very different - Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Ancient Near Eastern, and archaeological - perspectives on the topic of the 'otherworld journey', which contextualises the motif of the otherworld journey in Old Norse-Icelandic literature in an unprecedented breadth.

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