☂ Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend PDF / Epub ✐ Author John McKinnell – Natus-physiotherapy.co.uk A particular recurring feature of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World gods and human beings and those of the Other giants giantesses dwarves prophetesses monste A particular recurring feature Other in Kindle ´ of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World gods and human beings and those of the Other giants giantesses dwarves prophetesses monsters and the dead Concentrating on cross gendered encounters this book analyses these meetings and the different motifs and situations they encompass from the consultation of a Meeting the eBook µ prophetess by a king or god to sexual liaisons and return from the dead It considers the evidence for their pre Christian origins discusses how far individual poets and prose writers were free to modify them and suggests that they survived in medieval Christian society because like folk tale they provide a non dogmatic way of resolving social and the Other in Epub Ú psychological problems connected with growing up succession from one generation to the next sexual relationships and bereavement.
- Hardcover
- 302 pages
- Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend
- John McKinnell
- English
- 19 September 2015 John McKinnell
- 9781843840428
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