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Press references abound in contemporary popular culture, they are so common in
fantasy literature, role-playing games, comics or cinematography that the time of their
anonymity
Blog outside of Scandinavia has long gone by. Whether or not merely
anthropological curiosities that serve for a good story or attempts to reconnect with the
ancient
People past in the form of Neopagan revivals, the world of Asgard and Valhalla proves
to be very potent in its adaption to different discourses.
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VALHALLA RISING: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH NORSE
MYTH IN SCANDINAVIAN AND GERMAN PAGAN PhD THESIS
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VALHALLA RISING: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH NORSE

MYTH IN SCANDINAVIAN AND GERMAN PAGAN METAL PhD THESIS
Irina Maria Manea
What happens when the electric guitar meets Thor’s hammer? The effect might be quite
bombastic and trigger a sensation of empowerment and enchantment capable of temporarily
relocating us to some imaginary places and eldritch times that could cathartically fill up an
imagined identity. Metal music is an enormously rich and challenging cultural phenomenon, which
has been captivating me for some years and where many times I found solace and an expression
of my own emotions. Equally fascinating I find the distant past, with all its aura of mystique and
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exoticism – “the past is a foreign country”, as the saying goes. What I am writing about in this…
paper is somehow
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trend in metal culture, which is to use Pagan histories as source of inspiration for the lyrics and
images of the bands. One vital preliminary remark would be that when such bands aesthetically
Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture
instrument the past and play with nostalgic reimaginings of history and heritage, they weave a
(eds. Clark, D. and Phelpstead, C.)
personalized cultural narrative that corresponds to a symbolic collectivity and cultural memory.
Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture
What guides this study are questions such as: how does the non-musical component relate to old
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sources•Dimitra Fimikind of discourse does it produce? What does it communicate about the
and what
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Mythology “The past continues to
in Iceland
speak to us. But it no longer addresses us a simple factual past. It is always constructed through
2019 •Simon Halink
memory, fantasy, narrative and myth. Cultural identities are the unstable points of identification or
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made Theosophy and OldofNorse
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problematizes the concept of identity itself turning it into a construct of language . And in this
fragmented
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transgressive content, where one lyrical trend elevates sources like Norse mythology to cultural
markers
Einherjer. that enact dreams
A ballad of swords of a primordial past as forms of differentiation and authenticity, yet in
a carnivalesque fashion with a strongly immersive touch. Mainly, cultural identity is achieved here
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through representations of heritage, understood in a context of metal culture. When recycling and
Einherjer attempts
reusing themes fromto old
revive the past
sources in awith personal
similar manner,retellings of Norse
bands invoke myths,
their own conceived as a vital
story and sense of
part of heritage that needs to be preserved. Heathenism, rather than a set of
belonging. As a case study I have made a selection (highly subjective, of course) of metal bands beliefs, again
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a discursive
resort to an quality in the aesthetic
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metal and myth and how the former may be thought to generate an aestheticized spirituality. My
practical
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in extreme metal: the Einherjer, Helheim (Norway), Månegarm, Amon
band Enslaved
Amarth, Thyrfing (Sweden), Falkenbach, Black Messiah and Odroerir (Germany), which beyond the
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aural differentiations share common markers in subject matters. The denominations Pagan and
The use of Norse myth in Pagan metal is indicative of how an art-religion is formed based on
Viking metal are used in this paper to refer to the set of verbal and visual codes, in a nutshell a
transfigurations of cultural heritage. At the same time we need to always take into account the
lyrical trend focused on pre-Christian themes, Nordic ones in the case of the latter, therefore they
more ample semiotic codes of (extreme) metal and its transgressive features so as to grasp the
will often appear synonymously here since I am merely discussing the construction of
meanings of storytelling and recontextualizations of Norse myth in creative processes.
Northernness. My particular focus will be on a content analysis of the Eddic themes in metal
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contextualization of such a historical reception. That being said, let us
begin our journey to Valhalla.
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Ph.D. Thesis: Asgard Revisited. Old Norse Mythology and Icelandic National Culture
1820-1918
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Primal Roots: Ancestry and Race in Extreme Music Discourses

Irina Maria Manea
In the following essay our discussion will center around the problem of identity building within the
extreme heavy metal scene, which resorts to certain myths, images and stereotypes in its lyrical
discourses in order to empower this identity. We are investigating one recurrent theme which is
the preoccupation for heritage and ancestry and therefore the attempt to revive what is perceived
as traditional and authentic. New heathenism is an evergrowing phenomenon that opposes a
highly idealized and glorified past to a modernity conceived as corrupted and non-authentic,
seeking to offer an alternative to it through its laudatory rhetoric about history, religion and natur…
Nuances of this
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Metal, underground music scenes which also display a traditional and conservative tendency, but
which can also degenerate into more extremist forms such as racism. How and why are they
Norse Myth and Identity in Swedish Viking Metal: Imagining Heritage and a Leisure
exploring these trends, how can we integrate them into a broader historical context and why is the
Community
reception of the past so important to them are a few of the aspects we are going to address.
Irina Maria Manea
This paper will be exploring how a specific category of popular music known as Viking Metal
thematically reconstructs heritage and what meanings we can decode from images generally
dealing with an idealized past more than often symbolically equated with Norse myth and
antiquity. On the whole we are investigating how song texts and furthermore visual elements
contribute to the formation of a cultural identity and memory which not only expresses
attachment for a particular time and space, but also serves as a leisure experience with the
cultural proposal of an alternate selfhood residing in the reproduction of a mystical heroic…
populace. TheFree
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PDFof a few contemporary Swedish Viking Metal bands and
particularly their appropriations of Norse mythology
The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies, Vol. 9, issue 2
The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies, Vol. 9, issue 2 (2017)
2017 •Silviu-Marian Miloiu, C. C., Cristina Visovan
After several decades wherein the Viking studies seemed to allow little ground for new discoveries
the past decades have shown the tremendous research potential they still offer to scholars.
Gradually, the classical image of Viking warlords which permeated the historical writing starting
already with – and often based on – the medieval chronicles has been nuanced and other
hypostases of the Norseman have been discussed: the Viking as a trader, explorer, state crafter,
etc. New study programmes of Viking studies have been established at universities in
Scandinavia, but also in Britain, United States and Western Europe. Fresh historical sources have…
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studies, recent archaeological excavations and new insights into mythology, they greatly
expanded our knowledge of the Viking Age and its continental and global role. The Romanian
Association of Baltic and Nordic Studies has a vested interest in the promotion of Viking and
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A Tainted Legacy. Finnur Magnússon’s Mythological Studies and Iceland’s National
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Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

From Powerful Agents to Subordinate Objects? The Restless Dead in 13th and 14th-
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Reimagining Odin’s Wolves and Ravens in Peter Madsen’s "Valhalla" Series

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Degrees of Well-Formedness: The Formula Principle in the Analysis of Oral-Poetic
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A COMPARISON OF THE NORSE GODS, ODIN AND LOKI, WITH EMPHASIS PLACED
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CHRISTIAN IMAGERY WITHIN THE POETIC EDDA AND THE PROSE EDDA
Naomi Mercer
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of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar
Edel Porter
An examination of the ideologies underlying nineteenth century scholarly researches

into the Viking Age
Carole Cusack
Murphy 2013. MA Thesis: 'Herjans dísir: Valkyrjur, Supernatural Femininities, and Elite
Warrior Culture in the Late Pre-Christian Iron Age'
Luke John Murphy
Letters in the margin: Female provenance of Laxdæla saga manuscripts on Flatey

Sofie Vanherpen
Mythic and Real Spaces in the Hávamál

2015 •Ines Garcia Lopez
Pagan Metal as aestheticized heritage

Irina Maria Manea
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia

In Pursuit of an Æsirist Ideology
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Understanding diversity in Old Norse religion taking Þórr as a case study

Declan Taggart
An Encapsulation of Óðinn: Religious Belief and Ritual Practice Among the Viking Age
Elite with Particular Focus Upon the Practice of Ritual Hanging (PhD Thesis 2016)
Douglas Dutton
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS),
Monash University, 12-16 February 2013.
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Carole Cusack
Socio-Historical Implications of Eschatological Elements in the Scandinavian Myths,

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Lucian Lopez
Prose Contexts of Eddic Poetry, Primarily in the Fornaldarsögur

2013 •Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen
Maiden warriors in Old Norse Literature

Francesca Zappatore
Saga-Book
Hrolfs Saga Kraka and Sami Bear Rites
2007 •Clive Tolley
SOME LINGUISTIC REMARKS REGARDING ROMANIAN VIKING STUDIES

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Recognizing a dvergr: Physical Status and External Appearance of dvergar in Medieval

Nordic Sources (8th-13th century
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In metal music, myths give birth to other myths

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An Examination of Liquids in the Poetic Edda: with examples from the Prose Edda and
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Gala Copley
Óðinn: A Queer tyr? A Study of Óðinn's Function in Iron Age Scandinavia. MA thesis
Eirnin Jefford Franks
WOMEN IN THE VIKING AGE. DEATH, LIFE AFTER DEATH AND BURIAL CUSTOMS
Audags Halja-Runa
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent …

Ásatrú in Iceland: The Rebirth of Nordic Paganism?
2000 •Michael Strmiska
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1999 •Kathryn Starkey
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Scandia: Journal of Medieval Studies
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WARRIOR HALLS OF VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIA
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religious identity
Sofie Vanherpen
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ensaio historiográÉco sobre a Escandinavística brasileira", de Lukas Grzybowski e
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VALHALLA RISING: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH NORSE

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Primal Roots: Ancestry and Race in Extreme Music Discourses

"Snorri's Edda: The Sky Described in Mythological Terms.“ Nordic Mythologies:

Scandinavian Journal of History

Neomedievalism in the media

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

Reimagining Odin’s Wolves and Ravens in Peter Madsen’s "Valhalla" Series

Introduction to Runes and Triads

RMN Newsletter 8: 68-70.

(Unpublished PhD thesis, 2007) Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study

An examination of the ideologies underlying nineteenth century scholarly researches

Letters in the margin: Female provenance of Laxdæla saga manuscripts on Flatey

Mythic and Real Spaces in the Hávamál

Pagan Metal as aestheticized heritage

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia

Understanding diversity in Old Norse religion taking Þórr as a case study

Socio-Historical Implications of Eschatological Elements in the Scandinavian Myths,

Prose Contexts of Eddic Poetry, Primarily in the Fornaldarsögur

Maiden warriors in Old Norse Literature

SOME LINGUISTIC REMARKS REGARDING ROMANIAN VIKING STUDIES

Recognizing a dvergr: Physical Status and External Appearance of dvergar in Medieval

In metal music, myths give birth to other myths

Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent …

Nations and Nationalism

REPRESENTATION OF OLD NORSE MYTHOLOGY RACES IN J. R. R. TOLKIEN THE

… /Dept. of Philosophy, History, Culture and …

Performing Oaths in Eddic Poetry: Viking Age Fact or Medieval Fiction?

Popular Culture Mythology (Old Norse Literature)

The reception of Old Norse Myth

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