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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/666403125 Title: Iron Age myth and materiality : an archaeology of Scandinavia, AD 400-1000 Author: Lotte Hedeager Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011. ISBN/ISSN: 9780415606028 0415606020 0415551188 9780415551182 9780415606042 0415606047 0415551196 9780415551199 9780203829714 0203829719 OCLC:666403125

  
  

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Iron Age myth and materiality : an archaeology of Scandinavia, AD 400-1000

Author:	Lotte Hedeager
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Iron Age Myth and Materiality: An Archaeology of Scandinavia ad 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post Roman era and the European Migrations of the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the documentation of an oral past relates to its material embodiment. While the material evidence is from the Iron Age, most Old Norse texts were written down in the thirteenth century or even later. With a time lag of 300 to 900 years from the archaeological evidence, the textual material has until recently been ruled out as a usable source for any study of the pagan past. However, Hedeager argues that this is true regarding any study of a society's short-term history, but it should not be the crucial requirement for defining the sources relevant for studying long-term structures of the tongue dure, or their potential contributions to a theoretical understanding of cultural changes and transformation. In Iron Age Scandinavia we are dealing with persistent and slow-changing structures of world views and ideologies over a wavelength of nearly a millennium. Furthermore, iconography can often date the arrival of new mythical themes, anchoring written narratives in a much older archaeological context. Old Norse myths are explored with particular attention to one of the central mythical narratives of the Old Norse canon - the mythic cycle of Odin. In addition, contemporaneous historical sources from Late Antiquity and the early European Middle Ages are examined. No other Study provides such a broad ranging and authoritative study of the relationship of myth to the archaeology of Scandinavia.  Read more...
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Subjects	Iron age -- Scandinavia. Scandinavia -- Antiquities. Material culture -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500. View all subjects
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