Matthias Egeler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1249918 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthias Egeler |
| PRENOMES | Matthias |
| SOBRENOME | Egeler |
| ASSINATURA | EGELER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Religion and the Experience of Nature
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Materiality, Density, and Belief. Reflections on the Supernatural in Rural Icelandic Everyday Life
Presenting a historical ethnography of the supernatural landscape of two Icelandic farms in the early decades of the twentieth century, this article aims to contribute to ongoing debates about how “belief” is created and reinforced, specifically approaching this question from the perspective of the materiality of religions. Taking its starting point from how elements of traditional Icelandic so-called folk belief are connected with the farming la…
Patterns in Icelandic Elf Hills
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions . Ed. Emily Lyle. The Early Medieval North Atlantic Series. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Pp. 302. This volume begins with an introduction by Emily Lyle, in which she explores the relationship between the two
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions
This volume begins with an introduction by Emily Lyle, in which she explores the relationship between the two concepts of “myth” and “history” and then goes on to present a comparison of the fight of Lug and Balor in the medieval Irish text Cath Maige Tuired, the combat between Thor and the giant Geirrod as described in the Snorra-Edda, and a broad range of other comparative material. This comparison leads her to propose a “cosmological approach”…
The Grave Mound of a Saga Hero
The article presents a case study within the recent renaissance of folkloristic approaches to Old Norse-Icelandic religious history and saga literature. It undertakes a comparative analysis of medieval literary and recent local traditions about the burial of Ǫnundr Wooden-Foot, who was the great-grandfather of Grettir the Strong and an important character in the introductory chapters of Grettis saga. First, the article lays out the different acco…
Things that Place Names Do
Drawing on corpora from West Africa and Iceland, the article presents a fieldwork-based comparative exploration of 'things that place names do'. Treating toponyms as performative elements of culture, we have observed striking parallels as well as differences in the uses of place names in both regions. Place names communicate spatial orientation; play an important role in the commemoration of people and events; mark claims of possession; support t…
An Ethnography of an Imaginary Road
Matthias EgelerMatthias Egeler is a Privatdozent at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where he holds a Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. His research focuses on religious history, landscape, and cultural contact in Northwest Atlantic Europe, especially Ireland and Iceland. Recent publications include the books Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home: Gaelic Place-Lore and the Construction of a Sense of Place in Medi…
The Hunt and the Otherworld
Taking its starting point from the current trend towards using Indo-European comparative material for elucidating Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art sites, this article develops an interpretation of the overall iconographic program of the Massleberg Stora Skee rock art panel in Bohuslän, southern Sweden. It focuses on the hunting scene which forms one of the centerpieces of the site and poses the question of how this hunting scene relates to the re…
The Plane Trees of Diomedes
Taking its starting point from the current theoretical debate about “religious aesthetics” ( Religionsästhetik ), this article offers a new interpretation of the landscaping of the Island of Diomedes. On the basis of a survey of the primary sources, it demonstrates that the descriptions of the Island of Diomedes have to be seen in the context of the mythological motif of the Islands of the Blessed. This in turn suggests an explanation for Theophr…
The Hunt and the Otherworld
Taking its starting point from the current trend towards using Indo-European comparative material for elucidating Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art sites, this article develops an interpretation of the overall iconographic program of the Massleberg Stora Skee rock art panel in Bohuslän, southern Sweden. It focuses on the hunting scene which forms one of the centerpieces of the site and poses the question of how this hunting scene relates to the re…
The Plane Trees of Diomedes
Taking its starting point from the current theoretical debate about “religious aesthetics” ( Religionsästhetik ), this article offers a new interpretation of the landscaping of the Island of Diomedes. On the basis of a survey of the primary sources, it demonstrates that the descriptions of the Island of Diomedes have to be seen in the context of the mythological motif of the Islands of the Blessed. This in turn suggests an explanation for Theophr…
The Hunt and the Otherworld
Taking its starting point from the current trend towards using Indo-European comparative material for elucidating Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art sites, this article develops an interpretation of the overall iconographic program of the Massleberg Stora Skee rock art panel in Bohuslän, southern Sweden. It focuses on the hunting scene which forms one of the centerpieces of the site and poses the question of how this hunting scene relates to the re…
An Ethnography of an Imaginary Road
Matthias EgelerMatthias Egeler is a Privatdozent at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where he holds a Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. His research focuses on religious history, landscape, and cultural contact in Northwest Atlantic Europe, especially Ireland and Iceland. Recent publications include the books Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home: Gaelic Place-Lore and the Construction of a Sense of Place in Medi…
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions . Ed. Emily Lyle. The Early Medieval North Atlantic Series. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Pp. 302. This volume begins with an introduction by Emily Lyle, in which she explores the relationship between the two
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions
This volume begins with an introduction by Emily Lyle, in which she explores the relationship between the two concepts of “myth” and “history” and then goes on to present a comparison of the fight of Lug and Balor in the medieval Irish text Cath Maige Tuired, the combat between Thor and the giant Geirrod as described in the Snorra-Edda, and a broad range of other comparative material. This comparison leads her to propose a “cosmological approach”…
The Grave Mound of a Saga Hero
The article presents a case study within the recent renaissance of folkloristic approaches to Old Norse-Icelandic religious history and saga literature. It undertakes a comparative analysis of medieval literary and recent local traditions about the burial of Ǫnundr Wooden-Foot, who was the great-grandfather of Grettir the Strong and an important character in the introductory chapters of Grettis saga. First, the article lays out the different acco…
Things that Place Names Do
Drawing on corpora from West Africa and Iceland, the article presents a fieldwork-based comparative exploration of 'things that place names do'. Treating toponyms as performative elements of culture, we have observed striking parallels as well as differences in the uses of place names in both regions. Place names communicate spatial orientation; play an important role in the commemoration of people and events; mark claims of possession; support t…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Religion and the Experience of Nature
.
Materiality, Density, and Belief. Reflections on the Supernatural in Rural Icelandic Everyday Life
Presenting a historical ethnography of the supernatural landscape of two Icelandic farms in the early decades of the twentieth century, this article aims to contribute to ongoing debates about how “belief” is created and reinforced, specifically approaching this question from the perspective of the materiality of religions. Taking its starting point from how elements of traditional Icelandic so-called folk belief are connected with the farming la…
Patterns in Icelandic Elf Hills
History (10 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Archaeology (5 obras) · Classics (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Icelandic (4 obras)