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dc.contributor.authorMundal, Else
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-27T12:11:33Z
dc.date.available2023-04-27T12:11:33Z
dc.date.created2023-01-31T13:21:52Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn0108-1993
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3065332
dc.description.abstractThe article presents an overview of the Valkyrie motif in Old Norse sources. The Valkyries have their origins in various religious beliefs and overlap with other female mythological beings. It is moreover clear that Valkyries have a great ability to adjust to changing societal conditions. That Valkyrie motifs can be quite different from one another can be understood against this background. In the most common motifs, Valkyries are presented as Óðinn’s women whom he sends to the battlefield to select those who are to die. It is argued that those Valkyries who appear in contexts where they disobey Óðinn are more closely related to the Norns that to him. Valkyries who disobey Óðinn encapsulate a question that must have been especially pertinent in Late Norse times when the Christian idea of one almighty God was known: Who constituted the highest power in life, the Norns or Óðinn?en_US
dc.language.isonnoen_US
dc.titleÓðinn og hans ulydige valkyrjeren_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Journal & The Authoren_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7146/rt.v74i.132111
dc.identifier.cristin2120079
dc.source.journalReligionsvidenskapeligt Tidsskriften_US
dc.source.pagenumber356-370en_US
dc.identifier.citationReligionsvidenskapeligt Tidsskrift. 2022, 74 (1), 356-370.en_US
dc.source.volume74en_US
dc.source.issue1en_US


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