Late Iron Age religion in the North: before Christianity
Reading List, c. 500 pages
Andrén, A. 1989. D?rrar till f?rg?ngna myter. En tolkning av de gotl?ndska bildstenarna. In Andrén, A. (ed.) Medeltidens f?delse. Gyllenstiernska Krapperupsstiftelsen, Krapperup: 287-319. OR
Andrén, A. 1993. Doors to other worlds: Scandinavian death rituals in Gotlandic perspective. Journal of European Archaeology 1: 33-56. [These are Swedish and English versions of the same text]
Brink, S. 2004. Mytologiska rum och eskatologiska f?rest?llningar i det vikingatida Norden. In Jennbert, K., Andrén, A. & Raudvere, C. (eds) Ordning mot kaos: studier av nordisk f?rkristen kosmologi. Nordic Academic Press, Lund: 291-316.
Ingstad, A.S. 1992. Oseberg-dronningen - hvem var hun? In Christensen, A.E., Ingstad, A.S. & Myhre, B. (eds) Osebergdronningens grav. Schibsted, Oslo: 224-56.
Price, N.S. 2002. The Viking way: religion and war in late Iron Age Scandinavia. Uppsala University Press, Uppsala. Chapter 4: 233-279.
Price, N.S. 2004. The archaeology of sei?r: circumpolar traditions in Viking pre-Christian religion. In Lewis-Simpson, S. (ed.) Vínland revisited: the Norse world at the turn of the first millennium. Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John's: 277-294.
Steinsland, G. 2002. Herskermaktens ritualer. In Jennbert, K., Andrén, A. & Raudvere, C. (eds) Plats och praxis: studier av nordisk f?rkristen ritual. Nordic Academic Press, Lund: 87-104.
Holm-Olsen, L. 1985. Eddadikt. 2nd ed. Cappelen, Oslo.
Vikstrand, P. 2004. Berget, lunden och ?kern: om sakrala och kosmologiska landskap ur ortnamnens perspektiv. In Jennbert, K., Andrén, A. & Raudvere, C. (eds) Ordning mot kaos: studier av nordisk f?rkristen kosmologi. Nordic Academic Press, Lund: 317-342.
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE
Read c. 250 pages in total from the following works, browsing as you wish to follow up leads from the rest of the reading; these books may either be used to gain a general overview of Old Norse religion (especially Davidson) or to deepen your understanding of what it might have meant to the individuals of the time (especially Hedeager)
Davidson, H.R. E. 1964. Gods and myths of northern Europe. Pelican, Harmondsworth. [This is also available in Swedish in the UHS library]
Hedeager, L. 1999. Skygger av en annen virkelighet: oldnordiske myter. Pax, Oslo.
N?sstr?m, B-M. 2002. Fornskandinavisk religion: en grundbok. 2nd edition. Studentlitteratur, Lund.