Loki, the Vätte, and the Ash Lad: A Study Combining Old Scandinavian and Late Material
In: Viking and medieval Scandinavia, Band 7, S. 63-106
ISSN: 2030-9902
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In: Viking and medieval Scandinavia, Band 7, S. 63-106
ISSN: 2030-9902
In: FF communications 307 = Vol. 154
In: Academia scientiarium Fennica
In: CEU Medievalia
Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place 'on the other side', of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted "as sites for extraordinary events and happenings"