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Krig och fred i vendel- och vikingatida traditioner

Krig och fred i vendel- och vikingatida traditioner

Paperback

Series: Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion, Book 37

Religion General Scandinavian History

ISBN10: 9176350312
ISBN13: 9789176350317
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 1 2016
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: Swedish

What were the ideas about conflicts and conflict resolutions in the Nordic countries during the Vendel Period and the Viking Age? What role did i.e. gender and power hierarchies play in the conflicts?

All of the contributing texts are, in one way or another, related to the theme 'war and peace'. They present new interpretations of some of the Old Scandinavian texts as well as of archaeological material: the runic inscription on the Eggja stone (Andreas Nordberg), texts about the fight between the god Thor and the giant Hrungnir (Tommy Kuusela), about the valkyries (Britt-Mari Näsström), about a phalos cult (Maths Bertell), about fylgjur, a type of beings regarded as related to the fate of a person (Eldar Heide), about enclosed areas for fights and battles (Torsten Blomkvist), about the defilement of sacred areas and places as a power strategy (Olof Sundqvist), about ritualisations of peace negotiations (Stefan Olsson), and about Ragnarök, the end and renewing of the world (Anders Hultgård).

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