Þórr and wading
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Þórr and wading. / Wills, Tarrin Jon.
Die Faszination des Verborgenen und seine Entschlüsselung – Rāđi saʀ kunni: Beiträge zur Runologie, skandinavistischen Mediävistik und germanischen Sprachwissenschaft. Vol. 101 De Gruyter, 2017. p. 411-428 (Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergaenzungsbaende).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Þórr and wading
AU - Wills, Tarrin Jon
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Crossing rivers and boggy ground would have presented a number of dangers to early Scandinavians. There is a good deal of mythological evidence that Þórr is associated with the challenges of travelling by sea, as well as on various kinds of watery situations on land, such as rivers, lakes and bogs. There is literary evidence for the invocation of Þórr in seafaring, and this paper hypothesises that Þórr was invoked in related activities of crossing rivers and wet ground. The paper demonstrates a strong geographical relationship between Þórr-worship (as shown by settlement place-names) and crossing rivers and marshes (as shown by runic inscriptions commemorating bridges and fords), and attempts an explanation of this relationship in terms of the mythological evidence.
AB - Crossing rivers and boggy ground would have presented a number of dangers to early Scandinavians. There is a good deal of mythological evidence that Þórr is associated with the challenges of travelling by sea, as well as on various kinds of watery situations on land, such as rivers, lakes and bogs. There is literary evidence for the invocation of Þórr in seafaring, and this paper hypothesises that Þórr was invoked in related activities of crossing rivers and wet ground. The paper demonstrates a strong geographical relationship between Þórr-worship (as shown by settlement place-names) and crossing rivers and marshes (as shown by runic inscriptions commemorating bridges and fords), and attempts an explanation of this relationship in terms of the mythological evidence.
U2 - 10.1515/9783110548136-029
DO - 10.1515/9783110548136-029
M3 - Book chapter
VL - 101
T3 - Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergaenzungsbaende
SP - 411
EP - 428
BT - Die Faszination des Verborgenen und seine Entschlüsselung – Rāđi saʀ kunni
PB - De Gruyter
ER -
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