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Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia: A Grave Matter

Theoretical considerations Old Norse religion: Approach, sources and method Old Norse religion What is ‘religion’?What is ‘Old Norse’?The non-static and heterogenous nature of Old Norse religion Heterogenous conceptions of the afterlife in Old Norse religion Gravemounds and ancestors in Old Norse religion Folk vs. world religion Paganism and Christianity Primary sources Method Notes Secondary sources Research on ancestor worship The development of ‘ancestor worship’ as an academic term Ancestor worship in Old Norse research Notes Secondary sources Ancestors in social anthropology: Definition and social use ‘Ancestor worship’ – the problem with terminology The role of ancestors in folk religions Family, kinship and ‘superior ancestors’‘Superior ancestor worship’Notes Secondary sources Kings and gods in Old Norse religion The myth of ‘sacral kingship’Euhemerism – medieval propaganda or just history?Notes Secondary sources Case studies Introduction to the case studies Erik of Birka The Ynglingar Background on the Ynglingar Sources The Ynglingar and sacral kingship Ynglingatal; authorial purpose Freyr Adam’s Templum Adam’s account of human sacrifice Icons and processions Hálfdanr svarti Óláfr Geirstaðaálfr Notes Secondary sources The Haleygjar The Háleygjar and sacral kingship Þorgerðr hǫlgabrúðr Notes Secondary sources The Settlers of Breidafjprdr Þórólfr Mostrarskegg Auðr djúp(a)úðga Notes Secondary sources General conclusion Primary sources

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Research on ancestor worship
The development of ‘ancestor worship’ as an academic term The greatest question in the study of religion is that of origin. Different ideas, ranging from sociological and political to personal and faith-based theories have been proposed by so many scholars from so many various disciplines...
(Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia: A Grave Matter)
The development of ‘ancestor worship’ as an academic term
The greatest question in the study of religion is that of origin. Different ideas, ranging from sociological and political to personal and faith-based theories have been proposed by so many scholars from so many various disciplines over the years that it would be impossible to cover them in any single...
(Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia: A Grave Matter)
Ancestor worship in Old Norse research
In accordance with the generally folkloristic character of research and the ideas initiated by European intellectuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, scholars of Old Norse religion, too, placed considerable focus on subjects such as vegetation rituals, seasonal festivals, mortuary practices,...
(Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia: A Grave Matter)
‘Ancestor worship’ – the problem with terminology
The first thing one realises when embarking on the study of ancestor practices is how expansive the subject is. Attitudes towards the dead in different parts of the world vary greatly and so do the ways in which ancestors interact with the living. Ancestors can be regarded as benevolent, caring and kind,...
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‘Superior ancestor worship’
Tire belief that ancestors other than a person’s own can have vital influence over that person occurs across many societies and has been referred to by some anthropologists as ‘superior ancestor worship’ (e.g. Sheils 1980; Levinson 1996: 6), while others have discussed similar phenomena in different...
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The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe
An Introduction Marta Diaz-Guardamino, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan, and David Wheatley On 19 June 2014, while the final lines of this book were still being written, Felipe VI was proclaimed King of Spain, giving continuity into the twenty-first century to the Bourbon dynasty, which almost uninterruptedly...
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Back and Forward. Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany
Luc Laporte, Marie-Yvane Daire, Gwenole Kerdivel, and EUas Lopez-Romero The history of each place is always unique, and this also applies to each monument. Even the title of this book fits in with a pattern of thought developed by R. Bradley (2010). This approach treats the way in which certain prehistoric...
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IRON AGE ‘STELAE’ IN BRITTANY
In the same way as for the inventory of megaliths, the database on Iron Age stelae (Daire et al. forthcoming) is built on the revised and completed ‘Patriarche’ database of the Ministry for Culture and on publications concerning regional inventories (Daire and Giot 1989; Tanguy 1997; Le Brozec and...
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The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain
Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan and Marta Diaz-Guardamino INTRODUCTION Over the last decade, new questions have emerged with regard to the complex temporal patterns often seen in Iberian prehistoric monuments. A number of megalithic chamber tombs, menhirs, stelae or rock-art panels have been found to show that,...
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Cuneiform (Kizzuwatna) Luwian and Hieroglyphic (Empire and Iron Age) Luwian
The two varieties of Luwian are differentiated by several distinctive features (cf. Melchert 2003b: 171-175 for the following list). Cuneiform Luwian has replaced completely the inherited genitival forms *-os, *-oso, and *-osyo with a relational adjective in -assa/ i- (for a different...
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