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Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions
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Edited by:
Emily Lyle
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English
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2021
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Lyle Emily :
Emily Lyle is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include the monograph Ten Gods (2012) and an edited collection Celtic Myth in the 21st Century (2018).
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"[...] in this volume Lyle has succeeded in bringing together a remarkably balanced and coherent collection of essays that again and again make striking observations and major contributions to current discussions."
- Matthias Egeler, Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 94, No. 3
- Matthias Egeler, Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 94, No. 3
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
11 - Celtic Tradition
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1 The Nature of the Fomoiri: The Dark Other in the Medieval Irish Imagination
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2 Tuatha Dé and Fomoiri in Cath Maige Tuired
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3 Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity
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4 How Time Flies in the Cath Maige Tuired
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5 The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination
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6 Myth as a Historical Resource : The Case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg)
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7 Hagiography as Political Documentation : The Case of Betha Beraigh (The Life of St Berach)
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8 Baldr’s Achilles’ Heel? About the Scandinavian Three-God B-Bracteates
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9 The Cult of Óðinn in the Early Scandinavian Warrior Aristocracy
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10 Myth to History in Saxo
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11 The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as Disguised Theogony
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12 Loki the Slandered God? Selective Omission of Skaldic Citations in Snorri Sturluson’s Edda
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13 Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History
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Index
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eBook published on:
October 1, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9789048554065
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302
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16
eBook ISBN:
9789048554065
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Professional and scholarly;
