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Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend

Year: 2005

Type: book

Abstract: An investigation of the traditional patterns of cross-gender encounter between figures representing This World and the Other in Old Norse - Icelandic literature, and in more recent Scandinavian and British folktale and ballad, demonstrating that each typical pattern is generally associated with a particular pre-Christian Norse god.

Source: Boydell and Brewer eBooks

DOI: 10.1515/9781846154140

Author: John McKinnell

Language: English

Topic: Historical and Archaeological Studies

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2299444886

FWCI: 7.624

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