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Declan Taggart

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Description:How Thor Lost His Thunder is the first major English-language study of early medieval evidence for the Old Norse god Thor. Today, Thor is commonly imagined summoning lightning and thunder with his hammer while battling against monsters and giants. This book examines the basis of these images within the Iron Age and early medieval evidence. In doing so, the common cultural history of Thor's cult and mythology is explored and some of his lesser known traits are revealed, including a possible connection to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in Iceland.This geographically and chronologically far-reaching study considers the earliest sources in which Thor appears, including in evidence from the Viking colonies of the British Isles and in Scandinavian folklore. By tracing the changes that have occurred in Old Norse mythology over time, this book questions fundamental popular and scholarly beliefs about Thor for the first time since the Victorian era, including whether he really was a thunder god, and prompts new inquiries into areas like the afterlife belieds of Thor's worshippers.Considering evidence from across northern Europe, How Thor Lost His Thunder challenges modern scholarship's understanding of the god and of the northern pantheon as a whole and is ideal for scholars and students of mythology and of the history and religion of medieval Scandinavia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies). To get started finding How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: How Thor Lost His Thunder is the first major English-language study of early medieval evidence for the Old Norse god Thor. Today, Thor is commonly imagined summoning lightning and thunder with his hammer while battling against monsters and giants. This book examines the basis of these images within the Iron Age and early medieval evidence. In doing so, the common cultural history of Thor's cult and mythology is explored and some of his lesser known traits are revealed, including a possible connection to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in Iceland.This geographically and chronologically far-reaching study considers the earliest sources in which Thor appears, including in evidence from the Viking colonies of the British Isles and in Scandinavian folklore. By tracing the changes that have occurred in Old Norse mythology over time, this book questions fundamental popular and scholarly beliefs about Thor for the first time since the Victorian era, including whether he really was a thunder god, and prompts new inquiries into areas like the afterlife belieds of Thor's worshippers.Considering evidence from across northern Europe, How Thor Lost His Thunder challenges modern scholarship's understanding of the god and of the northern pantheon as a whole and is ideal for scholars and students of mythology and of the history and religion of medieval Scandinavia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies). To get started finding How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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