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- Title
Óðinn as a son of god.
- Authors
WYLY, BRYAN WESTON
- Abstract
This paper considers the value of certain micro-sagas interlarded within the genealogical matrix of Landnámabók as evidence for the initial colonization of the island by practitioners of a culture anthropologically egalitarian in its political organization as made possible through a forager economy based upon the pristine ecological state enjoyed by Iceland's first pioneers. A role for a cultural icon like Óðinn within such a society is discussed in light of the evolutionary changes which resulted in the eclipse of such a culture economically politically and ideologically by the time of Ári þorgilsson. Traces of such outmoded practices managed to survive within the literary period insofar as their symbolic forms could be reinterpreted within a world view predominantly influenced through institutionalized Christianity, so as to take on defining characteristics of magic.
- Subjects
ICELAND; ODIN (Norse deity); SAGAS -- History &; criticism; MAGIC; PHILOSOPHY of Christianity; RELIGION
- Publication
Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni, 2012, Vol 78, Issue 2, p405
- ISSN
0393-8417
- Publication type
Article