| Summary: | CARL-MARTIN EDSMAN Opening Address at the Symposium on Encounters between Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names, arranged by the Donner Institute 19-21 August 1987 OLD NORSE AND FINNISH RELIGION JENS PETER SCHJØDT Horizontale und vertikale Achsen in der vorchristlichen skandinavischen Kosmologie PREBEN MEULENGRACHT SØRENSEN Der Runen-Stein von Rök und Snorri Sturluson oder `Wie aussagekräftig sind unsere Quellen zur Religionsgeschichte der Wikingerzeit?' JUHA PENTIKÄINEN Child Abandonment as an Indicator of Christianization in the Nordic Countries UNTO SALO Agricola's Ukko in the light of archaeology. A chronological and interpretative study of ancient Finnish religion ANNA-LEENA SIIKALA Singing of Incantations in Nordic Tradition JÓN HNEFILL MALSTEINSSON Opferbeschreibungen in christlichen Schriften JÓNAS GÍSLASON Acceptance of Christianity in Iceland in the Year 1000 (999) RAGNHILD BJERRE FINNESTAD The Study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries, Some Reflections OTTAR GRØNVIK Der Runenstein von Tanum— ein religionsgeschichtliches Denkmal aus urnordischer Zeit ELSE MUNDAL The Position of the Individual Gods and Goddesses in Various Types of Sources — with Special Reference to the Female Divinities GRO STEINSLAND Pagan Myth in Confrontation with Christianity: Skírnismál and Genesis MARIANNE GÖRMAN Nordic and Celtic. Religion in Southern Scandinavia during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age ANDERS HULTGÅRD Old Scandinavian and Christian Eschatology HÅKAN RYDVING Scandinavian–Saami Religious Connections in the History of Research ÅKE V. STRÖM Personal Piety in Nordic Heathenism CULTIC PLACE-NAMES BENTE HOLMBERG Views on Cultic Place-Names in Denmark A Review of Research JOHN KOUSGÅRD SØRENSEN The Change of Religion and the Names MAUNO KOSKI A Finnic Holy Word and its Subsequent History SVEN BENSON Einige Personennamen und Götternamen in schwedischen Ortsnamen STEFAN BRINK Cult Sites in Northern Sweden LENNART ELMEVIK Aschw. Lytis- in Ortsnamen. Ein kultisches Element oder ein profanes? In September 1986 the Nordic Cooperation Committee for Humanistic Research presented a report on the research into Norse religion within the Nordic region. The report pointed out the need for intensified research efforts in the field, declaring it to be matter that should be of greatest importance for Nordic scholars. The Donner Institute reacted swiftly to this call by arranging a symposium on the theme the following year together with the philological research organisation Nordic Cooperation Committee for Place-Name Studies (NORNA). The articles included in the volume thus represent two main categories: firstly, research into pre-Christian religious beliefs and cultic practices in the Nordic region and, secondly, research into place-names from the same period and the light they may shed on beliefs and cults in the pre-Christian era.
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