Written through amazing students from a number of views, this account widens the interpretative scope on non secular existence one of the pre-Christian Scandinavian humans. the faith of the Viking Age is conventionally pointed out via its mythology: the ambiguous personality Odin, the forceful Thor, and the top of the area impending in Ragnarök. even though, pre-Christian faith consisted of a lot more than mythic imagery and legends and has lengthy lingered in people culture. Exploring the faith of the North via an interdisciplinary strategy, the e-book sheds new mild on a couple of themes, together with rituals, gender kin, social hierarchies, and interregional contacts among the Nordic culture and the Sami and Finnish areas.
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