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03587aam a2200445 i 4500 001 5E1B244A72D911EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221203010154 008 200529s2021 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020024611 020 $a 0197554482 020 $a 9780197554487 020 $a 0190852259 020 $a 9780190852252 035 $a (OCoLC)1157768777 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BL860 $b .L58 2021 082 00 $a 293/.13 $2 23 100 1 $a Lindow, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Old Norse mythology / $c John Lindow. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 231 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 490 1 $a World mythology in theory and everyday life 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- From Cosmogony to Cosmic Eschatology -- The System of Old Norse Mythology -- Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative ÃoÌrr's fishing expedition -- Old Norse Mythology and Learned Medieval Speculation -- Old Norse Mythology and Ideology (and Entertainment) -- Conclusion. 520 $a "This book treats from the perspective of the series "World mythologies in theory and in everyday life" the body of texts from medieval Scandinavia, mostly Iceland, usually known as "Norse mythology" or "Scandinavian mythology." Specifically, it constitutes a case study of a "literary or textual mythology," that is, a mythology from the past that we know only through written texts that have been left to us, augmented in a few cases by artifacts and images. This case is particularly interesting because the texts (with a tiny handful of enigmatic exceptions) were recorded centuries after the Nordic peoples had abandoned the religion associated with the mythology and converted to Christianity. The mythology lived on without direct connection to ritual activity or religious conviction. Drawing both on sources from before the conversion and on comparative analysis, it is certainly possible to reach informed inferences about the mythology before the conversion to Christianity-that is, when it existed as part of the pre-Christian religion of the Nordic peoples and their successors. From the perspective of the mythologies of the world, what is perhaps most important about these inferences is that this pre-Christian mythology was not a canonical mythology, since it almost certainly lacked a canon of sacred texts such as one finds in the great world religions of today. The focus of the book is not the mythology in and of itself, as would be true of a handbook, but rather how particular historical and intellectual circumstances formed conceptions about it."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Mythology, Norse. 650 0 $a Old Norse literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Icelandic literature $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Icelandic literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00966678 650 7 $a Mythology, Norse. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01031869 650 7 $a Old Norse literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01045226 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lindow, John, $t Old Norse mythology $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. $z 9780190852276 $w (DLC) 2020024612 830 0 $a World mythology in theory and everyday life 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014028.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E1B244A72D911EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search