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Price, Neil S., author.
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Vikings
Vikings -- Religion.
Vikings -- Warfare.
Viking antiquities -- Scandinavia.
Iron age -- Scandinavia.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scandinavia.
Scandinavia.
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The Viking way : magic and mind in late Iron Age Scandinavia / Neil Price.
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Price, Neil S., author.
Oxbow Books, 2019.
Subjects
Vikings
Vikings -- Religion.
Vikings -- Warfare.
Viking antiquities -- Scandinavia.
Iron age -- Scandinavia.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scandinavia.
Scandinavia.
Summary note:
Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this may really have meant to the men and women of the time. This book examines the evidence for Old Norse sorcery, looking at its meaning and function, practice and practitioners, and the complicated constructions of gender and sexual identity with which these were underpinned. Combining strong elements of eroticism and aggression, sorcery appears as a fundamental domain of women's power, linking them with the gods, the dead and the future. Their battle spells and combat rituals complement the men's physical acts of fighting, in a supernatural empowerment of the Viking way of life. What emerges is a fundamentally new image of the world in which the Vikings understood themselves to move, in which magic and its implications permeated every aspect of a society permanently geared for war. -- Provided by publisher.
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xxx, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Edition:
Second edition, fully revised and expanded.
Contents:
Different Vikings? toward a cognitive archaeology of the later Iron Age -- Problems and paradigms in the study of Old Norse sorcery -- Seiðr -- Noaidevuohta -- Circumpolar religion and the question of Old Norse shamanism -- The supernatural empowerment of aggression -- The Viking way -- Magic and mind.
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Previous edition: Uppsala : Uppsala University, 2002.
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9781842172605
1842172603
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