Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jochens, Jenny

Titel

The Classical Nordic Pantheon: Goddesses and Gender

Ist Teil von

• Old Norse Images of Women, 2016, p.49-84

Auflage

663.49

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to the preserved texts, some of the powerful figures treated in the previous chapter persisted after the arrival of the Indo-European religion and interacted with the divinities in the nordic pantheon. Thus Óðinn regularly consulted with the vǫlva and was surrounded by valkyries, and the elves who had been worshipped in Sweden were frequent participants in the feasts celebrated by the gods. Without being inscribed in medieval texts, other figures—such as the land-spirits—continued their lives in the popular imagination and were detected by later folklorists. Eventually, however, the older figures were overshadowed by the divinities in the