Mikael Males, Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa: En synkronanalys av mytologiska referenser i medeltida norrona handskrifter
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Recension : Carlie, Anne. Forntida byggnadskult. Tradition och regionalitet i sodra Skandinavien. Riksantikvarieambetet. Arkeologiska Undersokningar. Skrifter Nr 57. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieambetets forlag, 2004. 366 sidor.
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Asterix som myt och ideologi : om mytbegreppets tillampbarhet vid studier av ungdomskulturens ideologiska dimensioner
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Paulina Partanen: Female Power, (De)Constructing the Space of Immortal Threat in Homer's Odyssey
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Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : etudes sur la representation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources litteraires norroises. Acta academiae regiae Gustavi Adolphi. XCII.... more
Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : etudes sur la representation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources litteraires norroises. Acta academiae regiae Gustavi Adolphi. XCII. Uppsala. 2006.
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Erik den helige och Gamla Uppsala : Om tolkningen av religiosa symboler vid tiden for Sveriges kristnande
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Custodian of the sanctuary : protecting sacred space as a ritual strategy for gaining legitimacy and power in pre-christian Scandinavia
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Oden och Mithraskulten : Religios ackulturation under romersk jarnalder och folkvandringstid
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Anders Kaliff och Julia Mattes: Tempel och kulthus i det forna Skandinavien - myter och arkeologiska fakta
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Recension av Helena Victor: Med graven som granne. Om bronsalderns kulthus. Aun 20. Uppsala. 2002.
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Den hammarliknande figuren pa Forsaringen : En indikation pa vikingatida Torskult i Halsingland
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Kultpelare, rituellt hagn och religiosa processioner : Stolpmonumentet ur ett religionshistioriskt perspektiv
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Recension av Mikael Males: Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa. En synkronanalys av mytologiska referenser i medeltida norrona handskrifter. Det humanistiske fakultet. Universitetet i Oslo. 2010.
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... för religionsvetenskap. Publication type: Chapter in book (Refereed). Language: Swedish. In: Ordning mot kaos: Studier av nordisk förkristen kosmologi. Editor: Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert och Catharina Raudvere. Place of ...
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ABSTRACT: There are no sources which explicitly describe the complete initiation ritual of a pre-Christian king in ancient Scandinavia. However, there are sources from Scandinavia and Europe more broadly describing medieval royal... more
ABSTRACT: There are no sources which explicitly describe the complete initiation ritual of a pre-Christian king in ancient Scandinavia. However, there are sources from Scandinavia and Europe more broadly describing medieval royal inaugurations that may be based on older ceremonies related to the initiations of pre-Christian rulers. Whether or not elements in the medieval royal inauguration at Mora, south of presentday Uppsala (Sweden), are based on pre-Christian traditions is an old research problem. This royal initiation ritual is visible in the medieval provincial laws of Sweden and other sources. This study argues that there are traces of older traditions behind the medieval versions of the ritual sequence called “king taking” (OSw taka konong) performed at the Mora Stone. Focus is on the location of the ritual site, the terminology used in the preserved textual sources, and the ritual actions and paraphernalia applied when performing this ceremony. A comparative method is applie...