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 up until 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 longue dur e, 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 worldviews 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, king of the Norse pantheon. In addition,
contemporaneous historical sources from late Antiquity and the
early European Middle Age - the narratives of Jordanes, Gregory of
Tours, and Paul the Deacon in particular - will be explored. No
other study provides such a broad ranging and authoritative study
of the relationship of myth to the archaeology of Scandinavia.
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