Contacts and networks in the Baltic Sea Region
| Titel: | Contacts and networks in the Baltic Sea Region : "Austmarr" as a Northern "mare nostrum", ca. 500-1500 AD / edited by Maths Bertell, Frog and Kendra Willson |
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| Beteiligt: | ; ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019 |
| Umfang: | 296 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Crossing boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern studies |
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| ISBN: | 9789462982635 ; 9462982635 |
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- Preface
- p. 9
- Introduction: Looking across the Baltic Sea and over linguistic fences
- p. 11
- Section 1
- Mental maps
- 1
- The northern part of the Ocean in the eyes of ancient geographers
- p. 29
- 2
- Austmarr on the mental map of medieval Scandinavians
- p. 49
- 3
- The connection between geographical space and collective memory in Jómsvíkinga saga
- p. 67
- Section 2
- Mobility
- 4
- Rune carvers traversing Austmarr?
- p. 91
- 5
- Polish noble families and noblemen of Scandinavian origin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries: The case of the Awdancy family: by which route did they come to Poland and why?
- p. 117
- 6
- A medieval trade in female slaves from the north along the Volga
- p. 129
- Section 3
- Language
- 7
- Ahti on the Nydam strap-ring: On the possibility of Finnic elements in runic inscriptions
- p. 147
- 8
- Low German and Finnish revisited
- p. 173
- Section 4
- Myth and religion formation
- 9
- Mythic logic and meta-discursive practices in the Scandinavian and Baltic regions
- p. 187
- 10
- The artificial bride on both sides of the Gulf of Finland: The Golden Maiden in Finno-Karelian and Estonian folk poetry
- p. 211
- 11
- Local Sámi bear ceremonialism in a Circum-Baltic perspective
- p. 235
- 12
- Mythologies in transformation: Symbolic transfer, hybridisation, and creolisation in the Circum-Baltic arena (illustrated through the changing roles of *Tiwaz, *Ilma, and Óðinn, the fishing adventure of the thunder god, and a Finno-Karelian creolisation of North Germanic religion)
- p. 263
- Contributors
- p. 289
- Indices
- p. 291
