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Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend (Hardcover, New)
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Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend (Hardcover, New)
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Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly
encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters
and the Dead. 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, 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 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 psychological problems
connected with growing up, succession from one generation to the
next, sexual relationships and bereavement.
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