Norse burial practices and medieval fear of revenants in the myth of Ragnarök.
After the introduction of the Christian religion, a traumatic shift took place in the Norse approach to death rituals. Transition went with strains between the ancient era of cremation and the new inhumation period. We argue that the myth of Ragnarök, written after Icelandic Christianization, might...
| Publicado en: | Neohelicon Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 519 - 531 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2024
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