Search for dissertations about: "Icelandic Sagas"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Icelandic Sagas.
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1. Johan Ihre on the origins and history of the runes : Three Latin dissertations from the mid 18th century
Abstract : Johan Ihre (1707-80),professor Skytteanus, i.e. professor of eloquence and politics, at Uppsala University for 42 years, is considered the most prominent Swedish humanist and philologistof the 18th century. Under his presidency more than 450 dissertations were submitted on a variety of subjects. READ MORE
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2. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
Abstract : The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry that is our primary source for the mythology and cosmology of the time. However, little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this aspect of ritual may really have meant to the men and women of late Iron Age Scandinavia. READ MORE