Название: The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
Автор: Neil Price
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1842172603
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 432
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 68,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this may really have meant to the men and women of the time.
This book examines the evidence for Old Norse sorcery, looking at its meaning and function, practice and practitioners, and the complicated constructions of gender and sexual identity with which these were underpinned. Combining strong elements of eroticism and aggression, sorcery appears as a fundamental domain of women's power, linking them with the gods, the dead and the future.