{"product_id":"myth-and-history-in-celtic-and-scandinavian-traditions-9789463729055","title":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into contact, most prominently with the viking invasion of Ireland. In the famous Second Battle of Mag Tuired, gods such as Lug, Balor, and the Dagda participated in the conflict that distinguished this invasion. Pseudohistory, which consists of both secular and ecclesiastical fictions, arose in this nexus of peoples and myth and spilled over into other contexts such as chronological annals. Scandinavian gods such as Odin, Balder, Thor, and Loki feature in the Edda of Snorri Sturluson and the history of the Danes by Saxo Grammaticus. This volume explores such written works alongside archaeological evidence from earlier periods through fresh approaches that challenge entrenched views.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[...] in this volume Lyle has succeeded in bringing together a remarkably balanced and coherent collection of essays that again and again make striking observations and major contributions to current discussions.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Matthias Egeler, \u003ccite\u003eScandinavian Studies\u003c\/cite\u003e, Vol. 94, No. 3 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''There are many valuable essays in this work that will be of great interest to scholars working in either Norse or Irish medieval materials.'' \u003cbr\u003e- Tok Thompson, \u003ccite\u003eUniversity of Southern California\u003c\/cite\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''The individual scholarship contained in this volume is outstanding.'' \u003cbr\u003e- Dirk Schuster, \u003ccite\u003eReligious Studies Review, Vol. 48, No. 2, June 2022 \u003c\/cite\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Interconnections run through this volume in a way that gives it an overarching unity, which perfectly balances the very different approaches taken by the individual contributors and which is one of the traits that makes it a pleasure to read not just as a collection of papers, but as an actual book.''\u003cbr\u003e- Matthias Egeler, \u003ccite\u003eScandinavian Studies\u003c\/cite\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface (Emily Lyle) \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction (Emily Lyle) \u003cbr\u003eCELTIC TRADITION \u003cbr\u003e1 The Nature of the Fomoiri: The Dark Other in the Medieval Irish Imagination (John Carey) \u003cbr\u003e2 Tuatha Dé and Fomoiri in \u003ccite\u003eCath Maige Tuired\u003c\/cite\u003e (Elizabeth A. Gray) \u003cbr\u003e3 Exploring \u003ccite\u003eCath Maige Tuired\u003c\/cite\u003e through the Concept of Hybridity (Ina Tuomala) \u003cbr\u003e4 How Time Flies in the \u003ccite\u003eCath Maige Tuired\u003c\/cite\u003e (Joseph Falaky Nagy) \u003cbr\u003e5 The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination (Alexandra Bergholm) \u003cbr\u003e6 Myth as a Historical Resource: The Case of \u003ccite\u003eOrgain Denna Ríg\u003c\/cite\u003e (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg) (Kevin Murray) \u003cbr\u003e7 Hagiography as Political Documentation: The Case of \u003ccite\u003eBetha Beraigh?\u003ccite\u003e (The Life of St Berach) (Ksenia Kudenko) \u003cbr\u003eSCANDINAVIAN TRADITION \u003cbr\u003e8 Baldr's Achilles' Heel? About the Scandinavian Three-God B-Bracteates (Karen Bek-Pederson) \u003cbr\u003e9 The Cult of Ô¿inn in Early Scandinavian Aristocracy (Joshua Rood) \u003cbr\u003e10 Myth and History in Saxo (Morten Warmind) \u003cbr\u003e11 The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and \u003ccite\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/cite\u003e as Disguised Theogony (Emily Lyle) \u003cbr\u003e12 Loki the Slandered God? Selective Omission of Skaldic Citations in Snorri Sturluson's \u003ccite\u003eEdda\u003c\/cite\u003e (James Parkhouse) \u003cbr\u003e13 Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History (Jonas Wellendorf) \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473245475159,"sku":"9789463729055","price":111.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463729055.jpg?v=1744905844","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/myth-and-history-in-celtic-and-scandinavian-traditions-9789463729055","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}