The Road to HellCUP Archive |
Cuprins
CHAPTER | 7 |
The disposal of the dead in heathen times p 7 The funeral | 16 |
THE EVIDENCE OF LITERATURE | 30 |
Cremation and inhumation p 30 Shipfuneral p 39 Human | 61 |
The conception of Valhöll in the poems p 66 The Valkyries | 96 |
Worship of the dead and of the gravemound p 100 The custom | 119 |
Shapechanging p 122 The animal fylgja p 127 The guardian | 147 |
NECROMANCY | 165 |
THE JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD page | 170 |
The journey acknowledged as such p 171 The journey through | 194 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
Æsir Almgren animal Ásmundr Balder battle belief body Bronze Age Brynhildr burial mound buried burning century ceremony chapter Christian conception connected corpse cremation cult custom dead death dísir draugar draugr dreams earth Egils Saga elves evidence example Eyrbyggja Saga Flateyjarbók Fornaldar Sögur Freyja Freyr funeral fylgja Geirröðr give given gods grave grave-goods grave-mound Grímnismál Hadingus Hálfdan hall hamingja Harald heathen Helga Helgi Hervör human Ibid Iceland idea inhumation Íslendinga Sögur Jarl journey king laid land Landnámabók Laxdæla Saga living Norse literature Norway noticed Olaf Ólafs Saga Ólafs Saga Tryggvasonar Oseberg Othin passage possessions practice prose pyre realm rebirth sacrifice Saga Tryggvasonar Saxo Scandinavia seems shape-changing ship ship-burial ship-funeral Sigurðr sitting slain Snorri soul spirit story suggests supernatural suttee Sweden tells told tradition treasure Underworld Valhöll Valkyrie Vendel verse Viking Age Völuspá völva warriors woman women worship Ynglinga Saga Þórólfr Þorsteinn