Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Maps and Illustrations XI
4. List of Abbreviations XVII
5. Editorial comments for all three volumes XIX
6. Prelude 1
7. Introductions: Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia
8. Chapter 1 Jerusalem: Navel of the Storyworld in Medieval Scandinavia 12
9. Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North 42
10. Chapter 3 Translatio Templi: A Conceptual Condition for Jerusalem References in Medieval Scandinavia 49
11. Part I: Kings, Crusaders, and Jerusalem Relics: Strategies of Legitimation, Models of Authority
12. Chapter 4 Jerusalem and the Christianization of Norway 59
13. Chapter 5 Scandinavian Holy Kings in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem 86
14. Chapter 6 The Saint and the Wry-Neck: Norse Crusaders and the Second Crusade 95
15. Chapter 7 Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam: A Journey to the Lost Jerusalem 132
16. Chapter 8 Importing Jerusalem: Relics of the True Cross as Political Legitimation in Early Twelfth-Century Denmark and Norway 140
17. Chapter 9 The Crown of Thorns and the Royal Office in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Scandinavia 166
18. Part II: The Holy City: Travels, Perceptions, and Interactions
19. Chapter 10 From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy 191
20. Chapter 11 Scandinavian Pilgrims and the Churches of the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 198
21. Chapter 12 Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leiðarvísir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem 218
22. Chapter 13 The Locus of Truth: St Birgitta of Sweden and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 245
23. Part III: Jerusalem Transposed and Reenacted: Townscapes, Churches, and Practices
24. Chapter 14 St Olav, Nidaros, and Jerusalem 270
25. Chapter 15 Jerusalem Commonplaces in Danish Rural Churches: What Urban Architecture Remembers 299
26. Chapter 16 The Holy City in the Wilderness: Interpreting the Round Churches in Västergötland, Sweden 324
27. Chapter 17 Entering the Temple of Jerusalem: Candlemas and Churching in the Lives of the Women of the North. A Study of Textual and Visual Sources 340
28. Chapter 18 Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure: The Holy Cross at Borre 375
29. Chapter 19 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Church Interior 394
30. Part IV: Navigating the Sacred Storyworld: Nordic Landscapes and Salvation History
31. Chapter 20 Civitas Hierusalem famosisima: The Cross, the Orb, and the History of Salvation in the Medieval North 424
32. Chapter 21 Imagining the Holy Land in the Old Norse World 455
33. Chapter 22 Enemies of Christ in the Far North: Tales of Saracens, Jews and the Saami in Norwegian Medieval Painting 477
34. Chapter 23 The Virtues Building Jerusalem: The Four Daughters of God and Their Long Journey to Norwegian Law in the Thirteenth Century 500
35. Chapter 24 Zion in the North: Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala 520
36. List of Contributors 535
37. Bibliography 537
38. Index of Manuscripts 591
39. Index 593