Between the Worlds : Contexts, Sources, and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys / Wilhelm Heizmann, Matthias Egeler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Egeler, Matthias, Editor.

Heizmann, Wilhelm, Editor.

Series:

Ergänzungsbände Zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde

Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde ; 118

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Afterlife.

Jenseits.

Mythologie.

Mythology.

Otherworld.

Religionsvergleich.

comparison of religions.

Local Subjects:

Afterlife.

Jenseits.

Mythologie.

Mythology.

Otherworld.

Religionsvergleich.

comparison of religions.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VII, 722 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Journeys to Other Worlds in pre-Christian Scandinavian Mythology: Different Worlds – Different Purposes

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

Zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits. Die skandinavischen Gedichte Draumkvæði und Sólarljóð

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

Die Jenseitsreise auf den Bildsteinen Gotlands

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

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

Nigromantie in den Tod- und Jenseits-Exempla des Dialogus miraculorum des Caesarius von Heisterbach

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

Andersweltreisen der Kelten in der antiken Literatur: ein kurzer Baedeker

Die Reise zu den Inseln der Seligen von Hesiod bis Lukian

Märchenhexe oder göttliche Ritualexpertin? Kirke und Kult im Kontext der homerischen Nekyia

Calypso and the Underworld: The Limits of Comparison

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

“Hard it is to stir my tongue”: Raiding the Otherworld for Poetic Inspiration

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

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

Namen und Begriffe

Wissenschaftliche Autoren

Orte

Texte

Bilddenkmäler

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110624663

3110624664

OCLC:

1163878042