Old Norse Folklore: Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval Scandinavia | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
Online orders placed from 19/12 onward will not arrive in time for Christmas.
Online orders placed from 19/12 onward will not arrive in time for Christmas.
A01=Stephen A. Mitchell
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Stephen A. Mitchell
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DS
Category=DSBB
Category=JFHF
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
Language_English
PA=Not yet available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Forthcoming
softlaunch

Old Norse Folklore: Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval Scandinavia

English

By (author): Stephen A. Mitchell

The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in this last area of western Europe to be Christianized. This volume not only considers these issues but also pulls back the curtain on more obscure, yet important, corners of Nordic magico-religious tradition.

In these chapters, Stephen A. Mitchell draws on materials from many different periods of the vast Nordic world, stretching from Greenland to the Baltic, and examines such diverse witnesses as sagas, judicial records, ballads, synodal statutes, runes, proverbs, church murals, leechbooks, and the language used to discuss magic and its actors. Old Norse Folklore addresses how theology helped to shape the Nordic magical world and how language can reveal this world, how magic was used as a practical matter in (and what it meant philosophically to) the medieval Nordic world, and how inherited traditions between and among the historically connected societies of northern Europe impacted cultural developments in late medieval Scandinavia.

See more
Current price €25.65
Original price €28.50
Save 10%
A01=Stephen A. MitchellAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Stephen A. Mitchellautomatic-updateCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=DSCategory=DSBBCategory=JFHFCOP=United StatesDelivery_Pre-orderLanguage_EnglishPA=Not yet availablePrice_€20 to €50PS=Forthcomingsoftlaunch

Will deliver when available. Publication date 15 Feb 2025

Product Details
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781501777509

About Stephen A. Mitchell

Stephen A. Mitchell is the Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University. His research centers on the Nordic world in the medieval and early modern periods and employs a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including performance theory memory studies anthropological linguistics and other folklore-centered perspectives. He is the author of Heroic Sagas and Ballads and Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages.

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept