The era of the Vikings. The world of gods and the world of people in the myths of the Northern Germans
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The fundamental work of Wilhelm Grenbek, a Danish historian, cultural scientist, professor of the University of Copenhagen, is more than a study of ancient German culture, this is a penetrating story about the life and beliefs of the Vikings - the ancestors of modern Europeans who inhabited the Scandinavian peninsula, Denmark and Iceland in the early Middle Ages. Professor Grenbek talks about the material and spiritual components of the life of the clan - family relics, the exchange of gifts, the conclusion of marriage and trade transactions, the festival of sacrifice and transformation of the ritual at the breakdown of the eras, when Christianity came to replace the beliefs of the ancestors. Analyzing the “senior” and Snorov “Edda”, Icelandic tribal sagas, as well as the poem “Beowulf”, the author in detail and comprehensively recreates the picture of the world of the man of the north, whose life was inseparable from the life of the clan, where the largest evil was the loss of honor, and the exile was terrible More than death. The publication includes the essays “Essay on the Ritual Drama” and “Völusp”, the original interpretation of the main plot of Scandinavian mythology
Author:
Author:Grenbek V.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:printing
Series:
Series: World History
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9524-5461-3
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