Scandinavian-Saami religious connections in the history of research
The religions of Scandinavians and Saamis have, for decades of scholarship, functioned as sources of analogies to explain elements in one another. For the study of Saami religion answers to questions about origins were sought in Scandinavian religion, while Saami religion has been seen by students o...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/67185 2023-05-15T18:08:11+02:00 Scandinavian-Saami religious connections in the history of research Rydving, Håkan 1990-01-01 application/pdf https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67185 https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67185 eng eng The Donner Institute https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67185/27483 https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67185 doi:10.30674/scripta.67185 Copyright (c) 1990 Håkan Rydving https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis; Vol 13 (1990): Old Norse and Finnish Religions and Cultic Place-Names; 358-373 2343-4937 0582-3226 Scandinavia Sami (European people) Norse religion Religions -- Relations info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1990 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67185 2020-05-29T23:18:42Z The religions of Scandinavians and Saamis have, for decades of scholarship, functioned as sources of analogies to explain elements in one another. For the study of Saami religion answers to questions about origins were sought in Scandinavian religion, while Saami religion has been seen by students of Scandinavian religion, as a preserver and a faithful witness of Scandinavian concepts and rites that had vanished in the times reflected in the literary sources. This view has now changed. In recent decades the tendency has been to use the loan- explanations more and more sparsely. Elements in Saami religion that were seen earlier as Scandinavian loans are now explained in a Finno-Ugric context, whereas the few elements in Scandinavian religion that were thought of as loans from the Saamis are more often looked upon as inherited from a common origin, a North Eurasian cultural stratum. The search for analogies has, in any case, preoccupied the historian of religions in this field, too. The purpose here is to provide a short and selective résumé of some aspects of a theme in the history of scholarship, a theme where "resemblances" have been found, compared, used as analogies, and — called into question: the comparative study of the religions of the Scandinavians and Saamis. Article in Journal/Newspaper saami sami sami Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 13 358 373 |
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The religions of Scandinavians and Saamis have, for decades of scholarship, functioned as sources of analogies to explain elements in one another. For the study of Saami religion answers to questions about origins were sought in Scandinavian religion, while Saami religion has been seen by students of Scandinavian religion, as a preserver and a faithful witness of Scandinavian concepts and rites that had vanished in the times reflected in the literary sources. This view has now changed. In recent decades the tendency has been to use the loan- explanations more and more sparsely. Elements in Saami religion that were seen earlier as Scandinavian loans are now explained in a Finno-Ugric context, whereas the few elements in Scandinavian religion that were thought of as loans from the Saamis are more often looked upon as inherited from a common origin, a North Eurasian cultural stratum. The search for analogies has, in any case, preoccupied the historian of religions in this field, too. The purpose here is to provide a short and selective résumé of some aspects of a theme in the history of scholarship, a theme where "resemblances" have been found, compared, used as analogies, and — called into question: the comparative study of the religions of the Scandinavians and Saamis. |
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