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Afterlife
Angles
Author_Rudolph Simek
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Category=QRS
Christianity
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Folk tale
Folklore
Germanic religion
Germanic Tribes
Goths
Heathen
Heroic lay
Magic
Medieval Literature
Mythology
Norse
Northern Europe
Poetry
Religious text
Runes
Saxons
Scandinavian Literature
Product details
- ISBN 9780859915137
- Weight: 668g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 1996
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over 1700 entries cover mythology and religion of heathen Germanic tribes: Scandinavians, Goths, Angles and Saxons, 1500 BC-1000 AD.
For two and a half thousand years, from 1500 BC to AD 1000, a culture as significant as the classical civilisation of the Mediterranean world settled an immense area in northern Europe that stretched from Iceland to the Black Sea.But the sources of our knowledge about these societies are relatively few, leaving the gods of the North shrouded in mystery.
In compiling this dictionary Rudolf Simek has made the fullest possible use of the information available -Christian accounts, Eddic lays, the Elder Edda, runic inscriptions, Roman authors (especially Tacitus), votive stones, place names and archaeological discoveries. He has adhered throughout to a broad definition of mythology which presents the beliefs of the heathen Germanic tribes in their entirety: not only tales of the gods, but beings from lower levels of belief: elves, dwarfs and giants; the beginning and end of the world; the creation of man,death and the afterlife; cult, burial customs and magic - an entire history of Germanic religion.
RUDOLF SIMEK is Professor of Medieval German and Scandinavian literature at the University of Bonn in Germany.
