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Between the Worlds

Contexts, Sources, and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys
  • Edited by: Matthias Egeler and Wilhelm Heizmann
Languages: German, English
Published/Copyright: 2020
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The rich corpus of literary otherworld journeys that has survived from the Scandinavian - and especially the Icelandic - Middle Ages is in many respects tied to a space 'Between the Worlds'. Every otherworld journey quite literally engages with a space 'between the worlds' in the sense that it plays itself out between this world and a world beyond, an otherworld. Yet this is not all. Also in terms of its cultural context this branch of the literature of the medieval North takes up a position situated midway between a broad range of poles. Texts from the Christian period treat pre-Christian mythology; allegedly pre-Christian material is studded with Christian motifs; Scandinavian texts adapt the learning and literature of the European continent, Ireland, and the classical Mediterranean; and Finnish narratives in turn appear to adapt Scandinavian narrative patterns. The volume presents a rich panorama of a broad range of very different - Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Ancient Near Eastern, and archaeological - perspectives on the topic of the 'otherworld journey', which contextualises the motif of the otherworld journey in Old Norse-Icelandic literature in an unprecedented breadth.

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Wilhelm Heizmann, LMU Munich, Matthias Egeler, LMU Munich

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    Zwischen den Welten: Kontexte, Quellen und Analogien zu skandinavischen Jenseits- und Andersweltreisen

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    Matthias Egeler and Wilhelm Heizmann
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  • 1. Die altnordische und altsächsisch-altenglische literarische Überlieferung
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    Journeys to Other Worlds in pre-Christian Scandinavian Mythology: Different Worlds – Different Purposes

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    Jens Peter Schjødt
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    Quest in die Unterwelt. Narrative Metamorphosen von Jenseitsreisen und anderen phantastischen Fahrten in Sagaliteratur und Eddischer Dichtung

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    Matthias Teichert
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    Zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits. Die skandinavischen Gedichte Draumkvæði und Sólarljóð

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    Jiří Starý
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    Der Teufel im sächsischen Garten: Loki und eine Jenseitsreise in der altsächsisch-altenglischen Genesis B

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    Richard North
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    Die Jenseitsreise auf den Bildsteinen Gotlands

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    Sigmund Oehrl
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    The Possibilities for an Afterlife. Souls and Cosmology in the Nordic Bronze Age

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    Flemming Kaul
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    The Slavic Way of Death. Archaeological Perspectives on Otherworld Journeys in Early Medieval Poland

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    Leszek Gardeła
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  • 3. Mittellateinische und keltische Überlieferungen
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    Nigromantie in den Tod- und Jenseits-Exempla des Dialogus miraculorum des Caesarius von Heisterbach

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    Horst Schneider
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    The Question of Irish Analogues in Old Norse- Icelandic Voyage Tales in the fornaldarsögur and the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus

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    Séamus Mac Mathúna
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    Andersweltreisen der Kelten in der antiken Literatur: ein kurzer Baedeker

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    Andreas Hofeneder
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  • 4. Die antike Mittelmeerwelt und der Alte Orient
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    Die Reise zu den Inseln der Seligen von Hesiod bis Lukian

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    Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
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    Märchenhexe oder göttliche Ritualexpertin? Kirke und Kult im Kontext der homerischen Nekyia

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    Christian Zgoll
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    Calypso and the Underworld: The Limits of Comparison

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    Christopher Metcalf
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    Wege der Lebenden ins ‚Land ohne Wiederkehr‘ in Mythen und Ritualen der mesopotamischen Antike

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    Annette Zgoll
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  • 5. Finno-ugrische Perspektiven
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    “Hard it is to stir my tongue”: Raiding the Otherworld for Poetic Inspiration

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    Clive Tolley
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    uupui kolmea sanoa (‚es fehlten ihm drei Zauberworte‘) – Die Jenseitsreisen der Kalevala-Helden

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    Sabine Schmalzer
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    Practice-Bound Variation in Cosmology? A Case Study of Movement between Worlds in Finno-Karelian Traditions

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    Frog
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    Namen und Begriffe

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 5, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110624663
Hardcover published on:
May 5, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110618815
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
7
Main content:
722
Illustrations:
33
Coloured Illustrations:
28
Tables:
3
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624663
eBook ISBN: 9783110624663
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110618815
Keywords for this book
Afterlife; otherworld; mythology; comparison of religions
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Scandinavian, Comparative and Religious Studies, archaeologists, medievalists
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