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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Figures 11 Tables 12 Acknowledgements 13 Abbreviations 15 1 Introduction 16 1.1 Justifications and the limits of the study 17 1.2 Vikings, religion and other controversies 19 1.3 Orthography 20 2 Sources 24 2.1 Categories of sources 25 2.1.1 Eddic and skaldic poetry 25 2.1.2 Eddic prose 28 2.1.3 Iconography and runic inscriptions 30 2.1.4 Contemporary historiography and ethnography 32 2.1.5 Conclusions 33 2.2 Variety and change 34 2.2.1 Why is it important? 34 2.2.2 Why did it happen? 36 3 Naming thunder 44 3.1 Ancient *Þunraz 44 3.2 Vagna verz: the wagon man 51 3.3 A roaring rider 58 3.4 Onomastics 63 3.5 In summary 66 4 Eddic thunder 79 4.1 Snorri Sturluson’s Edda 79 4.2 ‘All the mountains shake’: Lokasenna 80 4.3 Volcanic imagery: Þrymskviða and Hallmundarkviða 84 4.4 Making an impression 90 4.5 The strongman of Old Norse myth 93 4.5.1 Guardian of the gods 95 4.5.2 Enduring strength 98 4.5.3 Inversions 100 5 Non-eddic voices 112 5.1 An Icelandic Jove 112 5.2 Adam of Bremen 114 5.3 Saxo Grammaticus 118 5.4 An isolated parallel in a lausavísa by Þjóðólfr Arnórsson 122 6 Mythological objects 129 6.1 Closer attention to Þórsdrápa 1

Author

Taggart, Declan;

Published

2017

Language

EN