Helskobinding - i litterær og religionshistorisk belysning
The starting point of this article is the problem of the reliability of information in the Icelandic sagas about Norse religion. It seems that there is a possibility of getting indirect information from the texts themselves. What is attempted here is to find a relationship between the religious info...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Dinamarquês |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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[1987]
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Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
Ano: 1987, Volume: 11, Páginas: 37-54 |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Gísla saga
B Islandske sagaer B Nordisk religion |
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| Resumo: | The starting point of this article is the problem of the reliability of information in the Icelandic sagas about Norse religion. It seems that there is a possibility of getting indirect information from the texts themselves. What is attempted here is to find a relationship between the religious information about the custom of tying helskór on a dead person before burial (only known from Gísla Saga) and the literary form of skór in the Icelandic sagas in general. Here shoes seem to form part of the well-known scheme of foreshadowing, i.e. they indicate the coming of death and/or violence. This connection to death/violence could be explained by the use in the funeral ritual. Especially the examples in which a person ties his shoes seem to support this theory. If this is the case, it will also be a support to the authenticity of the funeral custom in Gísla Saga. |
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| ISSN: | 1904-8181 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7146/rt.v0i11.5392 |