TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bek-Pedersen,Karen
AU  - Bergholm,Alexandra
AU  - Carey,John
AU  - Falaky Nagy,Joseph
AU  - Gray,Elizabeth A.
AU  - Kudenko,Ksenia
AU  - Lyle,Emily
AU  - Murray,Kevin
AU  - Parkhouse,James
AU  - Rood,Joshua
AU  - Tuomala,Ina
AU  - Warmind,Morten
AU  - Wellendorf,Jonas
TI  - Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions
T2  - The Early Medieval North Atlantic
SN  - 9789048554065
AV  - BL900 .M98 2021
U1  - 299/.16113 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Celts
KW  - History
KW  - Mythology, Celtic
KW  - Mythology, Norse
KW  - Archaeology by period / region
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - European history
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Interdisciplinary Studies
KW  - Literary Theory, Criticism, and History
KW  - Medieval Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mythology, Vikings, Irish Pagan Gods, Saxo Grammaticus, Snorri Sturluson
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Celtic Tradition --; 1 The Nature of the Fomoiri: The Dark Other in the Medieval Irish Imagination --; 2 Tuatha Dé and Fomoiri in Cath Maige Tuired --; 3 Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity --; 4 How Time Flies in the Cath Maige Tuired --; 5 The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination --; 6 Myth as a Historical Resource : The Case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg) --; 7 Hagiography as Political Documentation : The Case of Betha Beraigh (The Life of St Berach) --; Scandinavian Tradition --; 8 Baldr’s Achilles’ Heel? About the Scandinavian Three-God B-Bracteates --; 9 The Cult of Óðinn in the Early Scandinavian Warrior Aristocracy --; 10 Myth to History in Saxo --; 11 The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as Disguised Theogony --; 12 Loki the Slandered God? Selective Omission of Skaldic Citations in Snorri Sturluson’s Edda --; 13 Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into contact, most prominently with the Viking invasion of Ireland. In the famous Second Battle of Moytura, gods such as Lug, Balor, and the Dagda participated in the conflict that distinguished this invasion. Pseudohistory, which consists of both secular and ecclesiastical fictions, arose in this nexus of peoples and myth and spilled over into other contexts such as chronological annals. Scandinavian gods such as Odin, Balder, Thor, and Loki feature in the Edda of Snorri Sturluson and the history of the Danes by Saxo Grammaticus. This volume explores such written works alongside archaeological evidence from earlier periods through fresh approaches that challenge entrenched views
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