As the Vikings began to migrate overseas as raiders or settlers in the
late eighth century, there is evidence that this new way of life,
centred on warfare, commerce and exploration, brought with it a
warrior ethos that gradually became codified in the Viking myths,
notably in the cult of Odin, the god of war, magic and poetry, and
chief god in the Norse pantheon. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries,
when most of Scandinavia had long since been converted to
Christianity, form perhaps the most important era in the history of
Norse mythology: only at this point were the myths of Thor, Freyr and
Odin first recorded in written form. Using archaeological sources to
take us further back in time than any written document, the accounts
of foreign writers like the Roman historian Tacitus, and the most
important repository of stories of the gods, old Norse poetry and the
Edda, Christopher Abram leads the reader into the lost world of the
Norse gods.
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9781441102003
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2015
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Continuum
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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