Nordic Religions in the Viking AgeUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 3 août 1999 - 271 pages The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Viking "conquerors" as much more numerous, technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than their neighbors has overshadowed the cooperation and cultural exchange which characterized much of the Viking Age. In actuality, the Norse explorers and traders were players in a complex exchange of technology, customs, and religious beliefs between the ancient pre-Christian societies of northern Europe and the Christian-dominated nations surrounding the Mediterranean. |
Table des matières
The Cultures and History of the VikingAge North | 19 |
Contexts and Concepts for Analysis | 29 |
Spiritual Aids | 45 |
Death Afterlife and the Problem of Ghosts | 69 |
Christian Themes and Pagan Functions | 173 |
Epilogue | 205 |
Glossary | 226 |
233 | |