Tracing Old Norse Cosmology by Andrén, Anders -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface 1. Old Norse cosmology as an archaeological challenge

Cosmological aspects of Old Norse religion The chronological and spatial horizons of Old Norse cosmology Archaeology and Old Norse cosmology Three archaeological studies

2. In the shadow of Yggdrasill

Mythological trees Real trees Representations of trees The archaeology of ‘tree settings’ The semiotics of the ‘tree settings’ The world from the view-point of ‘tree settings’ The tree in Old Norse religion

3. A world of stone

A biography of Ismantorp Ölandic comparisons Scandinavian forts Outlines of an early Scandinavian martial culture War as ritualized action War and cosmology Models and parallels Back to Ismantorp Ismantorp and Old Norse cosmology

4. Whirls, horses, and ships

Early picture stones on Gotland New contexts An initial pictorial analysis A return trip to Bronze Age iconography Bridging the gap between Eskelhem and Sanda Bronze Age perspectives on early Gotlandic picture stones Metalwork in the Iron Age A special case: the gold bracteates Iron Age perspectives on early Gotlandic picture stones The sun in later mythological contexts Tracing sun rituals The disappearance of solar symbols and sun rituals in the sixth century Solar traditions through time

5. Placing Old Norse cosmology in time and space

Different trajectories The Migration Period as a cluster of changes The Huns The dust veil The disappearance of the sun-oriented traditions in the sixth century A golden age Outlines of a new context

References

Primary Old Norse sources Other primary sources and secondary literature