Beyond ‘ása ok álfa’ : Eddic Discourses of the Álfar and their Chthonic Semantic Centre
ABSTRACT: In the Poetic Edda, a multitude of understandings and ideas exist concerning the Otherworldly collective known as the álfar (Old Norse pl., sg. álfr). While the understandings are indeed many, they are not arbitrary. There seems to exist what Jens Peter Schjødt has termed a "semantic...
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| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2022
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Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
Year: 2022, Volume: 74, Pages: 289-316 |
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B Discourse B eddic poetry B semantic centre B chthonic beings B pre-Christian Nordic religion B Álfar B Nordic mythology |
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