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Bryan, Eric Shane.

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Between gods and churches: Christianity, paganism, and the trajectory of belief in Old Norse myth, literature, and the later folktales.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Between gods and churches: Christianity, paganism, and the trajectory of belief in Old Norse myth, literature, and the later folktales./
Author:	Bryan, Eric Shane.
Description:	283 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Thomas A. Shippey.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3280184
ISBN:	9780549208204

Between gods and churches: Christianity, paganism, and the trajectory of belief in Old Norse myth, literature, and the later folktales.
Bryan, Eric Shane.

Between gods and churches: Christianity, paganism, and the trajectory of belief in Old Norse myth, literature, and the later folktales. - 283 p.

Adviser: Thomas A. Shippey.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Louis University, 2007.

The work addresses the manner in which belief develops from a Norse Pagan belief structure to a Christian one throughout conversion and Christianization in Iceland. Here the term "belief" suggests something different from the more commonly studied socio-political aspects of conversion. Whereas the latter analysis tends to focus on the global movements and implications of conversion, the former seeks out instances in which a culture betrays a genuine and essential struggle to understand what to believe and, more pointedly, why to believe it. The vast bodies of Norse literature and folktales offer a fertile environment for such inquiries, for in them we find copious instances of that struggle, spanning across a long trajectory of belief that begins in an age more Pagan than Christian and that reaches deep into the Christian age that follows. By analyzing points along this trajectory of belief, I aim to articulate fundamental shifts that take place in the Norse belief structure throughout the conversion and Christianization process.

ISBN: 9780549208204Subjects--Topical Terms:

571675
Literature, Medieval.

Between gods and churches: Christianity, paganism, and the trajectory of belief in Old Norse myth, literature, and the later folktales.
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520 $a In order to examine belief of a later, overtly Christian time, I analyze Icelandic folktales. The analysis indicates that, as Christianity introduces novel concepts such as sin, repentance, and redemption, sacred and profane space become reshaped, creating what I call malevolent space. Being situated in opposition to both sacred and profane space, malevolent space becomes one arena in which the folk belief of a later, Christian culture attempt to sort out their questions about the new religion. Where guardian figures of the earlier time crossed into and returned from sacred space in order to serve their constituents, the new mythic landscape demands that guardians enter into malevolent space, themselves succumbing to its evils. Only after they address their own redemption can they serve as guardians for others. By addressing their own redemption process, the later guardian figures articulate the steps to the Rite of Redemption, which include fall, redemption, ministration, and accountability. This new rite accompanies other "conversion culture" innovations such as the anti-numen and a revised view of attendant spirits. A large appendix includes translations of some twenty as yet untranslated Icelandic folktales.
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