John Lindow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 203370 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Lindow |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Lindow |
| FIRMA | LINDOW J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ritual and Hierarchy in Old Norse Mythology
Within Old Norse mythological narratives, the presence or absence of ritual establishes hierarchy. As exemplified in death ritual, ritual orders the two major classes of mythological beings, placing the Æsir (gods) above the jǫtnar (“giants”). In addition, the practice of ritual or ritual-like activity, resembling sacrifice, orders the class of the Æsir themselves, placing Óðinn above Þórr. RESUME: I de norrøne mytologiske narrativer etableres et…
The Testimony of the Hoofprints
Barbro Klein's "The Testimony of the Button" is still, fifty years after it appeared, a fundamental study of legends and legend scholarship. Inspired by Klein's article, I analyze legends about "lord and lady" Margrethe (1353-1412), who reigned for decades as the effective ruler of the medieval union of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Proceeding through various groups of related legends, I show how these legends were adapted to Margrethe's anomalous…
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North
The product of an international interdisciplinary team, the History and Structures strand of the Pre-Christian Religion of the North series aims to approach the subject by giving equal weight to ar ...
Pre-Christian Religions of the North
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
The current revival of interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Even readers with a knowledge of Old Norse and Icelandic have found these subjects difficult to pursue, however, for up-to-date reference works in any language are few and none exist in English.To fill the gap, six…
The Challenge of Folklore to Medieval Studies
When folklore began to emerge as a valid expression of a people during the early stages of national romanticism, it did so alongside texts and artifacts from the Middle Ages. The fields of folklore and medieval studies were hardly to be distinguished at that time, and it was only as folklore began to develop its own methodology (actually analogous to medieval textual studies) during the nineteenth century that the fields were distinguished. Durin…
Place names in eddic poetry
There have been few analyses of place-name usage in Old Norse poetry. We have the odd article discussing names in poems such as Ynglingatal (e.g. Noreen 1925; Åkerlund 1939; Vikstrand 2004) and, of course, the related Old English Beowulf and Widsið. There are many cases where single names found in eddic poetry have been commented on and etymologised, but no one has, to our knowledge, taken a holistic approach to this material. The personal names …
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. T…
Trolls in the Isefjord
Fragments of Lappish Mythology (review)
Reviewed by: Fragments of Lappish Mythology John Lindow Fragments of Lappish Mythology. By Lars Levi Læstadius. Ed. Juha Pentikäinen. Introduction and Afterword, Juha Pentikäinen. Trans. Börje Vähämäki. (Beaverton, Ontario: Aspasia Books, 2002. Pp. Ordained in 1824, Læstadius was a pastor in parts of the Torne River valley in northern Sweden until his death in 1861. Of partly Sami background himself, he spoke both the Sami and Finnish that were w…
Fragments of Lappish Mythology
Book Review| April 01 2006 Fragments of Lappish Mythology Fragments of Lappish Mythology, Lars Levi Læstadius Juha Pentikäinen Börje Vähämäki. John Lindow John Lindow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 247–248. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137932 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Lindow; Fragments of Lappish Myth…
Historia Norwegie . Inger Ekrem , Lars Boje Mortensen , Peter Fisher
Norse Mythology
Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland--outlining along the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world. The book begins with an Introduction that helps put Scandinavian mythology in place in history, followed by a chapter that explains the meaning of mythic time, and a third section that presents i…
Handbook of Norse Mythology
Authoritative, comprehensive reference incorporating the latest research on tales, literary and oral sources, and the broad-reaching cultural legacy of Norse mythology. The book describes the pagan origins of Scandinavia, the interaction between the Vikings and other Europeans, and the concept of time in Norse mythology, and gives a dictionary of deities, themes, and concepts. With 200 entries of up to four pages each, the dictionary includes bot…
Medieval Folklore
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. 2 Vols. Ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow. (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Pp. $175 cloth) This large compilation consists of 306 entries in alphabetical order, each followed by references and further reading. Many of the entries are only page or two long; the longest, like Folklore and Folktale (both by Lindahl), can be 10 or 12 …
Murder and Vengeance among the Gods
Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: in Scandinavian Mythology. By John Lindow. FF Communications 262. (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia/Academia Scientiaram Fennica, 1997. Pp. 210, bibliography, name and subject index. FIM 150 softbound, FIM 180 paper) Comparatively little is known about the resplendent Scandinavian god Baldr. One day he began to have bad dreams. His mother exacted an oath from all objects they would do no harm, but, as in al…
Kidnapping, Infanticide, Cannibalism
Among the so-called historical legends included in V E. V Wessman's collection of Finland Swedish legends is one curious type from near Abo, of whose seven versions Wessman himself collected three in 1915 (Wessman 1924:244-46). first version he prints is one of those he had collected, in this instance from Wilhelmina Wikstrom. It sounds like this in the English translation of Reimund Kvideland and Henning K Sehmsdorf, who give it the tide The out…
Ϸrymskviða , Myth and Mythology
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Social/Cultural Anthropology
Structure and Meaning in Old Norse Literature
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Michigan Germanic Studies, 7/1
The Ring of Dancers
Swedish Legends of Buried Treasure
ON OCTOBER 15, 1937, FIVE WORKERS were digging out the area over the cellar vaulting in a potato shop in the Old Town (Gamla Stan) in Stockholm. At 10:30 a.m. one of them found a silver coin, and soon many others were unearthed. Before long, personnel from the Historical Museum were on the scene and a crowd had gathered outside. In all, 84 silver objects, some 18,000 coins, and a few other pieces were found. The silver weighed a total of 205 kilo…
Edda . Anders Grape , Gottfrid Kallstenius , Olof Thorell
Murder and Vengeance among the Gods
Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: in Scandinavian Mythology. By John Lindow. FF Communications 262. (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia/Academia Scientiaram Fennica, 1997. Pp. 210, bibliography, name and subject index. FIM 150 softbound, FIM 180 paper) Comparatively little is known about the resplendent Scandinavian god Baldr. One day he began to have bad dreams. His mother exacted an oath from all objects they would do no harm, but, as in al…
Medieval Folklore
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. 2 Vols. Ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow. (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Pp. $175 cloth) This large compilation consists of 306 entries in alphabetical order, each followed by references and further reading. Many of the entries are only page or two long; the longest, like Folklore and Folktale (both by Lindahl), can be 10 or 12 …
Kidnapping, Infanticide, Cannibalism
Among the so-called historical legends included in V E. V Wessman's collection of Finland Swedish legends is one curious type from near Abo, of whose seven versions Wessman himself collected three in 1915 (Wessman 1924:244-46). first version he prints is one of those he had collected, in this instance from Wilhelmina Wikstrom. It sounds like this in the English translation of Reimund Kvideland and Henning K Sehmsdorf, who give it the tide The out…
Swedish Legends of Buried Treasure
ON OCTOBER 15, 1937, FIVE WORKERS were digging out the area over the cellar vaulting in a potato shop in the Old Town (Gamla Stan) in Stockholm. At 10:30 a.m. one of them found a silver coin, and soon many others were unearthed. Before long, personnel from the Historical Museum were on the scene and a crowd had gathered outside. In all, 84 silver objects, some 18,000 coins, and a few other pieces were found. The silver weighed a total of 205 kilo…
A Note on the Sources of Redundancy in Oral Epic
Saga og Språk
Wargus, vargr 'Verbrecher' 'Wolf.' Eine sprach- und rechtsgeschichtliche Untersuchung . Michael Jacoby
Edda . Anders Grape , Gottfrid Kallstenius , Olof Thorell
Swedish Legends of Buried Treasure
ON OCTOBER 15, 1937, FIVE WORKERS were digging out the area over the cellar vaulting in a potato shop in the Old Town (Gamla Stan) in Stockholm. At 10:30 a.m. one of them found a silver coin, and soon many others were unearthed. Before long, personnel from the Historical Museum were on the scene and a crowd had gathered outside. In all, 84 silver objects, some 18,000 coins, and a few other pieces were found. The silver weighed a total of 205 kilo…
Michigan Germanic Studies, 7/1
The Ring of Dancers
L. O
Structure and Meaning in Old Norse Literature
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Ϸrymskviða , Myth and Mythology
Preview this article: Ϸrymskviða, Myth and Mythology, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/nowele.31-32.17lin-1.gif
Murder and Vengeance among the Gods
Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: in Scandinavian Mythology. By John Lindow. FF Communications 262. (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia/Academia Scientiaram Fennica, 1997. Pp. 210, bibliography, name and subject index. FIM 150 softbound, FIM 180 paper) Comparatively little is known about the resplendent Scandinavian god Baldr. One day he began to have bad dreams. His mother exacted an oath from all objects they would do no harm, but, as in al…
Kidnapping, Infanticide, Cannibalism
Among the so-called historical legends included in V E. V Wessman's collection of Finland Swedish legends is one curious type from near Abo, of whose seven versions Wessman himself collected three in 1915 (Wessman 1924:244-46). first version he prints is one of those he had collected, in this instance from Wilhelmina Wikstrom. It sounds like this in the English translation of Reimund Kvideland and Henning K Sehmsdorf, who give it the tide The out…
Handbook of Norse Mythology
Authoritative, comprehensive reference incorporating the latest research on tales, literary and oral sources, and the broad-reaching cultural legacy of Norse mythology. The book describes the pagan origins of Scandinavia, the interaction between the Vikings and other Europeans, and the concept of time in Norse mythology, and gives a dictionary of deities, themes, and concepts. With 200 entries of up to four pages each, the dictionary includes bot…
Medieval Folklore
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. 2 Vols. Ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow. (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Pp. $175 cloth) This large compilation consists of 306 entries in alphabetical order, each followed by references and further reading. Many of the entries are only page or two long; the longest, like Folklore and Folktale (both by Lindahl), can be 10 or 12 …
Norse Mythology
Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland--outlining along the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world. The book begins with an Introduction that helps put Scandinavian mythology in place in history, followed by a chapter that explains the meaning of mythic time, and a third section that presents i…
Historia Norwegie . Inger Ekrem , Lars Boje Mortensen , Peter Fisher
Fragments of Lappish Mythology (review)
Reviewed by: Fragments of Lappish Mythology John Lindow Fragments of Lappish Mythology. By Lars Levi Læstadius. Ed. Juha Pentikäinen. Introduction and Afterword, Juha Pentikäinen. Trans. Börje Vähämäki. (Beaverton, Ontario: Aspasia Books, 2002. Pp. Ordained in 1824, Læstadius was a pastor in parts of the Torne River valley in northern Sweden until his death in 1861. Of partly Sami background himself, he spoke both the Sami and Finnish that were w…
Fragments of Lappish Mythology
Book Review| April 01 2006 Fragments of Lappish Mythology Fragments of Lappish Mythology, Lars Levi Læstadius Juha Pentikäinen Börje Vähämäki. John Lindow John Lindow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 247–248. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137932 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Lindow; Fragments of Lappish Myth…
Trolls in the Isefjord
Place names in eddic poetry
There have been few analyses of place-name usage in Old Norse poetry. We have the odd article discussing names in poems such as Ynglingatal (e.g. Noreen 1925; Åkerlund 1939; Vikstrand 2004) and, of course, the related Old English Beowulf and Widsið. There are many cases where single names found in eddic poetry have been commented on and etymologised, but no one has, to our knowledge, taken a holistic approach to this material. The personal names …
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry
This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. Dramatically recreating the voices of the legendary past, eddic poems distil moments of high emotion as human heroes and supernatural beings alike grapple with betrayal, loyalty, mortality and love. T…
The Challenge of Folklore to Medieval Studies
When folklore began to emerge as a valid expression of a people during the early stages of national romanticism, it did so alongside texts and artifacts from the Middle Ages. The fields of folklore and medieval studies were hardly to be distinguished at that time, and it was only as folklore began to develop its own methodology (actually analogous to medieval textual studies) during the nineteenth century that the fields were distinguished. Durin…
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
The current revival of interest in the rich and varied literature of early Scandinavia has prompted a corresponding interest in its background: its origins, social and historical context, and relationship to other medieval literatures. Even readers with a knowledge of Old Norse and Icelandic have found these subjects difficult to pursue, however, for up-to-date reference works in any language are few and none exist in English.To fill the gap, six…
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North
The product of an international interdisciplinary team, the History and Structures strand of the Pre-Christian Religion of the North series aims to approach the subject by giving equal weight to ar ...
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