Old Norse and Finnish Religions and Cultic Place-Names

514 Pages·1990·12.944 MB·English, German

by  Tore Ahlbäck (ed.)

Old Norse and Finnish Religions
and Cultic Place-Names

Old Norse and Finnish Religions
and Cultic Place-Names
Based on Papers read
at the Symposium on Encounters between Religions
in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names
held at Åbo, Finland,
on the 19th—21st of August 1987
Edited by
TORE AHLBÄCK
Published by
The Donner Institute for Research in
Religious and Cultural History
Åbo/Finland
Distributed by
Almqvist & Wiksell International
Stockiiolm/Sweden
ISSN 0582-3226
ISBN 951-649-695-4
Typesetting by Ann-Mari Dahlström, Åbo, Finland
Printed in Finland by
KOTEVA, Åbo 1990
Contents
Editorial Note 7
Carl-Martin Edsman
Opening Address at the Symposium on Encounters between
Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names,
arranged by the Donner Institute 19-21 August 1987 9
Old Norse and Finnish Religion
Jens Peter Schjødt
Horizontale und vertikale Achsen in der vorchristlichen
skandinavischen Kosmologie 35
Preben Meulengracht Sørensen
Der Runen-Stein von Rök und Snorri Sturluson —
oder ‘Wie aussagekräftig sind unsere Quellen
zur Religionsgeschichte der Wikingerzeit?’ 58
Juha Pentikäinen
Child Abandonment as an Indicator of Christianization
in the Nordic Countries 72
Unto Salo
Agricola’s Ukko in the light of archaeology. A chronological
and interpretative study of ancient Finnish religion 92
Anna-Leena Siikala
Singing of Incantations in Nordic Tradition 191
Jon Hnefill Aðalsteinsson
Opferbeschreibungen in christlichen Schriften 206
Jonas GÍslason
Acceptance of Christianity in Iceland in the Year 1000 (999) 223
Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad
The Study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries.
Some Reflections 256
Ottar Grønvik
Der Runenstein von Tanum— ein religionsgeschichtliches
Denkmal aus urnordischer Zeit 273
Else Mundal
The Position of the Individual Gods and Goddesses in
Various Types of Sources — with Special Reference
to the Female Divinities 294
Gro Steinsland
Pagan Myth in Confrontation with Christianity:
Skirnismal and Genesis 316
Marianne Görman
Nordic and Celtic. Religion in Southern Scandinavia
during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age 329
Anders Hultgård
Old Scandinavian and Christian Eschatology 344
Håkan Rydving
Scandinavian-Saami Religious Connections in
the History of Research 358
Åke V. Ström
Personal Piety in Nordic Heathenism 374
Cultic Place-Names
Bente Holmberg
Views on Cultic Place-Names in Denmark
A Review of Research 381
John Kousgård Sørensen
The Change of Religion and the Names 394
Mauno Koski
A Finnic Holy Word and itsSubsequent History 404
Sven Benson
Einige Personennamen und Götternamen in schwedischen
Ortsnamen 441
Stefan Brink
Cult Sites in Northern Sweden 458
Lennart Elmevik
Aschw. Lytis- in Ortsnamen. Ein kultisches Element
oder ein profanes? 490