Old Icelandic and Sami Ancestor Mountains: A Comparison

From thirteenth-century Iceland, we have texts that tell us about a belief in local mountains where people could go after death. In mainland Scandinavia, the eighteenth-century sources for Sami religion tell us about a similar tradition. In this chapter, I will compare these traditions and argue tha...

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Main Author: Heide, Eldar
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Stockholm University Press 2022
Subjects:
Arctic
Iceland
sami
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3029391
https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu.c
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spelling fthsvestlandet:oai:hvlopen.brage.unit.no:11250/3029391 2024-03-03T08:40:09+00:00 Old Icelandic and Sami Ancestor Mountains: A Comparison Heide, Eldar 2022 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3029391 https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu.c eng eng Stockholm University Press Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons Heide, E. (2022). Old Icelandic and Sami ancestor mountains: A comparison. I H. Rydving & K. Kaikkonen (Red.), Religions around the arctic: Source criticism and comparisons (s. 31–76). Stockholm University Press. urn:isbn:978-91-7635-183-3 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3029391 https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu.c cristin:1997383 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no 31-76 Chapter Peer reviewed 2022 fthsvestlandet https://doi.org/10.16993/bbu.c 2024-02-02T12:40:50Z From thirteenth-century Iceland, we have texts that tell us about a belief in local mountains where people could go after death. In mainland Scandinavia, the eighteenth-century sources for Sami religion tell us about a similar tradition. In this chapter, I will compare these traditions and argue that they overlapped both in content and geographically, and that they constituted a partly shared tradition. I will compare the textual information about the two traditions, and I will compare the relevant places in the context of the surrounding landscapes. In Sami tradition, the places are in a few cases lakes and rivers rather than mountains. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Iceland sami Høgskulen på Vestlandet: HVL Open 31 76
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description From thirteenth-century Iceland, we have texts that tell us about a belief in local mountains where people could go after death. In mainland Scandinavia, the eighteenth-century sources for Sami religion tell us about a similar tradition. In this chapter, I will compare these traditions and argue that they overlapped both in content and geographically, and that they constituted a partly shared tradition. I will compare the textual information about the two traditions, and I will compare the relevant places in the context of the surrounding landscapes. In Sami tradition, the places are in a few cases lakes and rivers rather than mountains. publishedVersion
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title_full_unstemmed Old Icelandic and Sami Ancestor Mountains: A Comparison
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