Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic I

Автор(ы)

Tolley Clive

Язык

Английский

Размер

240/158/33 mm

Издатель

Kalevalaseura-säätiö

Год выхода

2023

Оформление

Твердый переплет

Количество страниц

589

Вес

1.17 кг

ISBN

978-952-9534-06-7

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Описание

ISSN0014-5815
Publisher Kalevalaseura-säätiö
Series Folklore Fellows' Communications
New edition 2023
Medieval Norse written sources, ranging from poems originally handed down in oral tradition from pagan times to prose sagas composed in literate Christian Iceland, as well as histories and laws, present acts of magic and initiation, performed both by humans in fictionalized histories and by gods in myths. The summoning of spirits, journeys to the otherworld, the taking of animal shape, and drumming are some of the features of these rites that have prompted many to see in pre-Christian Scandinavian practices some form of shamanism. But what exactly are the features of shamanism that are being compared? And how reliable are the Norse sources in revealing the true nature of pre-Christian practices?

In this study, Clive Tolley presents the main features of Siberian shamanism, as they are relevant for comparison with Norse sources, and examines the Norse texts in detail to determine how far it is reasonable to assign a label of "shamanism" to the human and divine magical practices of pre-Christian Scandinavia, whose existence, it is argued, in many cases resides mainly in the imaginative tradition of the poets.
Publisher of the first edition 2009: Academia Scientarium Fennica

Категория

История

EAN

9789529534067

Альтернативный ISBN

978-951-41-1027-6

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