There's something in the water: personified dangers of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic
Given the importance of the sea to the peoples of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it is argued that the dangers the Norse and the Greeks encountered while sailing through open waters and various other types of waterways were named, characterized and mythologised as female based on their pe...
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ftunivotagoour:oai:ourarchive.otago.ac.nz:10523/12780 2023-05-15T17:28:29+02:00 There's something in the water: personified dangers of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic Copedo, Jennifer Allan, Arlene 2022-03-17T02:10:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/10523/12780 en eng University of Otago http://hdl.handle.net/10523/12780 All items in OUR Archive are provided for private study and research purposes and are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. Norse Greek Mythology Ocean NorthAtlantic Mediterranean Siren Scylla Hafgufa WaveMaidens Thesis or Dissertation 2022 ftunivotagoour 2022-05-11T19:25:02Z Given the importance of the sea to the peoples of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it is argued that the dangers the Norse and the Greeks encountered while sailing through open waters and various other types of waterways were named, characterized and mythologised as female based on their perceptions of the two dominant types of ‘natures’ exhibited by human females. Thus, while the dangers each culture’s sailors encountered were decidedly different, there was a correlation between the Greek and Norse people’s experiences with oceanographic and meteorological phenomena in the Oceans and their development of mythological beings to explain the unknown. Thesis North Atlantic University of Otago: Research Archive (OUR Archive) |
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Given the importance of the sea to the peoples of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it is argued that the dangers the Norse and the Greeks encountered while sailing through open waters and various other types of waterways were named, characterized and mythologised as female based on their perceptions of the two dominant types of ‘natures’ exhibited by human females. Thus, while the dangers each culture’s sailors encountered were decidedly different, there was a correlation between the Greek and Norse people’s experiences with oceanographic and meteorological phenomena in the Oceans and their development of mythological beings to explain the unknown. |
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There's something in the water: personified dangers of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic |
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