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4 How Time Flies in the Cath Maige Tuired
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter 1
- Contents 5
- Preface 9
- Introduction 11
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Celtic Tradition
- 1 The Nature of the Fomoiri: The Dark Other in the Medieval Irish Imagination 25
- 2 Tuatha Dé and Fomoiri in Cath Maige Tuired 49
- 3 Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity 71
- 4 How Time Flies in the Cath Maige Tuired 95
- 5 The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination 117
- 6 Myth as a Historical Resource : The Case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg) 135
- 7 Hagiography as Political Documentation : The Case of Betha Beraigh (The Life of St Berach) 151
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Scandinavian Tradition
- 8 Baldr’s Achilles’ Heel? About the Scandinavian Three-God B-Bracteates 173
- 9 The Cult of Óðinn in the Early Scandinavian Warrior Aristocracy 197
- 10 Myth to History in Saxo 219
- 11 The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as Disguised Theogony 235
- 12 Loki the Slandered God? Selective Omission of Skaldic Citations in Snorri Sturluson’s Edda 251
- 13 Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History 271
- Index 295
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter 1
- Contents 5
- Preface 9
- Introduction 11
-
Celtic Tradition
- 1 The Nature of the Fomoiri: The Dark Other in the Medieval Irish Imagination 25
- 2 Tuatha Dé and Fomoiri in Cath Maige Tuired 49
- 3 Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity 71
- 4 How Time Flies in the Cath Maige Tuired 95
- 5 The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination 117
- 6 Myth as a Historical Resource : The Case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg) 135
- 7 Hagiography as Political Documentation : The Case of Betha Beraigh (The Life of St Berach) 151
-
Scandinavian Tradition
- 8 Baldr’s Achilles’ Heel? About the Scandinavian Three-God B-Bracteates 173
- 9 The Cult of Óðinn in the Early Scandinavian Warrior Aristocracy 197
- 10 Myth to History in Saxo 219
- 11 The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as Disguised Theogony 235
- 12 Loki the Slandered God? Selective Omission of Skaldic Citations in Snorri Sturluson’s Edda 251
- 13 Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History 271
- Index 295
