{"title":"The Idols of the Pagan Irish in the Medieval Literary Imagination","authors":"Alexandra Bergholm","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.9","url":null,"abstract":"Medieval Irish literary sources include a number of legends relating to\u0000 idols purportedly worshipped by the pagan Irish prior to the coming of\u0000 Christianity. Of these the most famous is Crom Cróich of Mag Slécht,\u0000 identified as the ‘king-idol of Ireland’ in the pseudohistorical lore as well\u0000 as in the hagiography of Saint Patrick. This article traces the development\u0000 of the various traditions relating to Crom Cróich in the medieval literary\u0000 milieu and re-examines some of the evidence presented by previous\u0000 scholars in support of the view that these legends could refer to an actual\u0000 cult of a pre-Christian deity.","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122828388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hagiography as Political Documentation:","authors":"Ksenia Kudenko","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130333322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Cath Maige Tuired through the Concept of Hybridity","authors":"Ina Tuomala","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the contemporary Irish identity and social reactions to the process of cultural hybridization, as they are depicted in the late Viking-Age narrative Cath Maige Tuired. The tale is a product of a transitional era whose preoccupations and prejudices are reflected in the narrative representations of the Fomoiri and the Tuatha Dé Danann. This chapter considers Cath Maige Tuired within its historical context as a narrative of hybridity in which the pivotal cultural identities are built on an ongoing comparison between the tale’s representations of the Self and the Other. At the same time the narrative illustrates a number of other cultural concerns at the forefront of the collective intellectual consciousness.","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133583569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128242144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"99 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124179975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ymir, Baldr, and the Grand Narrative Arc of Mythological History","authors":"Jonas Wellendorf","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.17","url":null,"abstract":"The Baldr story is now often linked with the killing of Ymir and seen as the\u0000 pivotal point in a great mythological narrative that outlines the history\u0000 of the flawed order of Óðinn from creation to destruction. This article\u0000 discusses two related points with a bearing on the foundations of this\u0000 theory. The first deals with the interpretation of the killing of Ymir and\u0000 its significance for subsequent mythological events. Rather than seeing\u0000 the killing of Ymir as a foundational crime, it is argued that the sources\u0000 present it as a benign creative act. The second main point deals with the\u0000 interpretation of the Baldr story as a murder within the family which, it\u0000 is argued, is a story about the inevitability of fate.","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127156576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nature of the Fomoiri:","authors":"J. Carey","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132135038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loki the Slandered God?","authors":"J. Parkhouse","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wdvx99.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124636804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myth as a Historical Resource : The Case of Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg)","authors":"K. Murray","doi":"10.5117/9789463729055_ch06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463729055_ch06","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how mythology and fictional narratives in medieval\u0000 Irish literature were used to communicate important societal ideas and to\u0000 encode political messages. It is a commonplace that stories about the past\u0000 were re-used, re-cycled and re-interpreted in order to justify the present.\u0000 These sources were utilized by the ruling classes in medieval Ireland\u0000 to help explain the status quo on the one hand and to justify emerging\u0000 change on the other. As the preference of the medieval Irish was ‘to take\u0000 their history in the form of fiction’, many stories like Orgain Denna Ríg\u0000 (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg) are extant from this period, stories which\u0000 provide us with an important perspective on the growth and articulation\u0000 of a significant facet of medieval Irish historiography.","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122829436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cult of Óðinn in the Early Scandinavian Warrior Aristocracy","authors":"Joshua Rood","doi":"10.5117/9789463729055_ch09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463729055_ch09","url":null,"abstract":"Medieval literary sources often portray the Norse deity Óðinn as being the\u0000 ultimate sovereign, ruling over other gods and earthly rulers alike. This\u0000 chapter compares the earliest evidence for the deity to the warrior-based\u0000 aristocracy which was beginning to come to power during the period prior\u0000 to the Viking Age, and attempts to shed new light on the relationship\u0000 between the two. The chapter argues that many Óðinn’s features developed\u0000 during this period and played a role in the identity formation of the early\u0000 warrior rulers who worshipped him.","PeriodicalId":306239,"journal":{"name":"Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129732187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}