Sökning: "Old Norse Myth"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Old Norse Myth.

  1. 1. Våra förfäder var hedningar : Nordisk forntid som myt i den svenska folkskolans pedagogiska texter fram till år 1919

    Författare :Johan Wickström; Eva Hellman; Olof Sundqvist; Stefan Arvidsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; use of history; myth; mythology; Old Norse religion; pre-history; ethnicity; nationalism; class; Old Icelandic; educational history; textbooks; school; didactics; Antonio Gramsci; Bruce Lincoln; intellectuals; history of religions; classification; hierarchy; ideology; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Narratives of Nordic pre-history are common in textbooks of the Swedish 'folk school'. This thesis discusses them from an ideological critical perspective and analyses them as textbook myths. This analytic concept of myth is constructed and used as a tool for studying ideological expressions in pedagogical texts. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Ariska idoler : Den indoeuropeiska mytologin som ideologi och vetenskap

    Författare :Stefan Arvidsson; Stefanie von Schnurbein; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Wilhelm Schmidt; George Dumézil; Aryan; Indo-European; History of Religion; Mythology; Myth; Historiography; Humanities; Ideology; Philology; Old Norse Myth; Germanic Religion; Vedic Religion; Friedrich Max Müller; Greek Religion; Marija Gimbutas; Theology; History of religion; Religionshistoria; Religionsvetenskap; Study of Religions; George Dumézil; Wilhelm Schmidt; Aryan; Indo-European; History of Religion; Mythology; Myth; Historiography; Humanities; Ideology; Philology; Old Norse Myth; Germanic Religion; Vedic Religion; Friedrich Max Müller; Greek Religion; Marija Gimbutas; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : By using ancient texts, medieval documents, philological observations, and archaeological artifacts, scholars have reconstructed a prehistorical world and religion. The people who upheld this culture have been named, inter alia, "Indo-Europeans", "Aryans", "Japhetites" and "Wiros". LÄS MER

  4. 3. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus

    Författare :Peter Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Indo-European poetics; Vedic religion; Greek religion; pre-Christian Scandinavian religion; myth; oral tradition; oral literature; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Proceeding from the presence of recurrent, poetic phrases and verbal collocations in early texts composed in Indo-European languages, this study is an attempt to elucidate some fundamental problems of myth, tradition and culture. The scholarly study of Indo-European religions and mythology-initiated during the 19th century and proceeding up to modem times with varying success-has often been devoted to the task of restoring a homogeneous system of Indo-European religious beliefs by searching for deep-seated reflexes of such a system in the historically attainable cultures. LÄS MER