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1 online resource (xxx, 398 pages) : illustrations |
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online resource cr |
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Seond edition, fully revised and expanded. |
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1. Different Vikings? Towards a cognitive archaeology of the later Iron Age -- A beginning at Birka -- Textual archaeology and the Iron Age -- The Vikings in (pre)history -- The materiality of text -- Annaliste archaeology and a historical anthropology of the Vikings -- The Other and the Odd? -- Conflict in the archaeology of cognition -- Others without Othering -- Indigenous archaeologies and the Vikings -- An archaeology of the Viking mind? -- 2. Problems and paradigms in the study of Old Norse sorcery -- Entering the mythology -- Research perspectives on Scandinavian pre-Christian religion -- Philology and comparative theology -- Gods and monsters, worship and superstition -- Religion and belief -- The invisible population -- The shape of Old Norse religion -- The double world: seior and the problem of Old Norse ̀magic' -- The other magics: galdr, gandr and Òoinnic sorcery -- Seior in the sources -- Skaldic poetry -- Eddie poetry -- The sagas of the kings -- The sagas of Icelanders (the ̀family sagas') -- The fornaldarsogur (s̀agas of ancient times', ̀legendary sagas') -- The biskupasogur (̀Bishops' sagas') -- The early medieval Scandinavian law codes -- Non-Scandinavian sources -- Seior in research -- 3. Seior -- Ooinn -- Ooinn the sorcerer -- Ooinn's names -- Freyja and the magic of the Vanir -- Seior and Old Norse cosmology -- The performers -- Witches, seeresses and wise women -- Women and the witch-ride -- Men and magic -- The assistants -- Towards a terminology of Nordic sorcerers -- The performers in death? -- The performance -- Ritual architecture and space -- The clothing of sorcery -- Masks, veils and head-coverings -- Drums, tub-lids and shields -- Staffs and wands -- Staffs from archaeological contexts -- Narcotics and intoxicants -- Charms -- Songs and chants. -- The problem of trance and ecstasy -- Engendering seior -- Ergi, nio and witchcraft -- Sexual performance and eroticism in seior -- Seior and the concept of the soul -- Helping spirits in seior -- The domestic sphere of seior -- Divination and revealing the hidden -- Hunting and weather magic -- The role of the healer -- Seior contextualised -- 4. Noaidevuohta -- Seior and the Sami -- Sami-Norse relations in the Viking Age -- Sami religion and the Drum-Time -- The world of the gods -- Spirits and Rulers in the Sami cognitive landscape -- Names, souls and sacrifice -- Noaidevuohta and the noaidi -- Rydving's terminology of noaidevuohta -- Specialist noaidi -- Diviners, sorcerers and other magic-workers -- The sights and sounds of trance -- Ìnvisible power' and secret sorcery -- Women and noaidevuohta -- Sources for female sorcery -- Assistants and jojker-choirs -- Women, ritual and drum magic. -- Female diviners and healers in Sami society -- Animals and the natural world -- The female noaidi? -- The rituals of noaidevuohta -- The role of jojk -- The material culture of noaidevuohta -- An early medieval noaidi? The man from Vivallen -- Sexuality and eroticism in noaidevuohta -- Offence and defence in noaidevuohta -- The functions of noaidevuohta -- The ethnicity of religious context in Viking-Age Scandinavia -- 5. Circumpolar religion and the question of Old Norse shamanism -- The circumpolar cultures and the invention of shamanism -- The shamanic encounter -- The early ethnographies: shamanic research in Russia and beyond -- Shamanism in anthropological perspective -- The shamanic world-view -- The World Pillar: shamanism and circumpolar cosmology -- The ensouled world -- The shamanic vocation -- Gender and sexual identity -- Eroticism and sexual performance -- Aggressive sorcery for offence and defence. -- Shamanism in Scandinavia -- From the art of the hunters to the age of bronze -- Seior before the Vikings? -- Landscapes of the mind -- The eight-legged horse -- Tricksters and trickery -- Seior and circumpolar shamanism -- Two analogies on the functions of the seior-staff -- The shamanic motivation -- Towards a shamanic world-view of the Viking Age -- 6. The supernatural empowerment of aggression -- Seior and the world of war -- Valkyrjur, skaldmeyjar and hjalmvitr -- Female warriors in reality -- The valkyrjur in context -- The names of the valkyrjur -- The valkyrjur in battle-kennings -- Supernatural agency in battle -- Beings of destruction -- Ooinn and the Wild Hunt -- The projection of destruction -- Battle magic -- Sorcery for warriors -- Sorcery for sorcerers -- Seior and battlefield resurrection -- Seior and the shifting of shape -- Berserkir and ulfheonar -- The battlefield of animals. -- Ritual disguise and shamanic armies -- Ecstasy, psychic dislocation and the dynamics of mass violence -- Homeric lyssa and holy rage -- Predators and prey in the legitimate war -- Weaving war, grinding battle: Darraoarljoo and Grottasongr in context -- The ẁeapon dancers' -- 7. The Viking way -- A reality in stories -- The invisible battlefield -- Material magic -- Viking women, Viking men -- 8. Magic and mind -- Receptions and reactions -- Cracks in the ice of Norse ̀religion' -- Walking into the seior: contested interpretations of Viking-Age magic -- Questioning Norse s̀hamanism' -- Staffs and spinning -- Queering magic? -- The social world of war -- The Viking mind: a conclusion -- Primary sources, including translations -- Pre-nineteenth-century sources for the early Sami and Siberian cultures -- Secondary works -- Sources in archive. |
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9781785708022 (electronic bk.) |
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1785708023 (electronic bk.) |
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9781785708046 (electronic bk.) |
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178570804X (electronic bk.) |
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9781842172605 |
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1842172603 |
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