Between the Worlds
Contexts, Sources, and Analogues of Scandinavian Otherworld Journeys
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 studd…
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Weitere Autoren: Heizmann, Wilhelm (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-062510-3
- EAN: 9783110625103
- Produktnummer: 34302068
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Deutsch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 729 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Wilhelm Heizmann; Matthias Egeler, LMU München.
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