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Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia: A Grave Matter
Theoretical considerations
Old Norse religion: Approach, sources and method
Old Norse religion
What is ‘religion’?
What is ‘Old Norse’?
The non-static and heterogenous nature of Old Norse religion
Heterogenous conceptions of the afterlife in Old Norse religion
Gravemounds and ancestors in Old Norse religion
Folk vs. world religion
Paganism and Christianity
Primary sources
Method
Notes
Secondary sources
Research on ancestor worship
The development of ‘ancestor worship’ as an academic term
Ancestor worship in Old Norse research
Notes
Secondary sources
Ancestors in social anthropology: Definition and social use
‘Ancestor worship’ – the problem with terminology
The role of ancestors in folk religions
Family, kinship and ‘superior ancestors’
‘Superior ancestor worship’
Notes
Secondary sources
Kings and gods in Old Norse religion
The myth of ‘sacral kingship’
Euhemerism – medieval propaganda or just history?
Notes
Secondary sources
Case studies
Introduction to the case studies
Erik of Birka
The Ynglingar
Background on the Ynglingar
Sources
The Ynglingar and sacral kingship
Ynglingatal; authorial purpose
Freyr
Adam’s Templum
Adam’s account of human sacrifice
Icons and processions
Hálfdanr svarti
Óláfr Geirstaðaálfr
Notes
Secondary sources
The Haleygjar
The Háleygjar and sacral kingship
Þorgerðr hǫlgabrúðr
Notes
Secondary sources
The Settlers of Breidafjprdr
Þórólfr Mostrarskegg
Auðr djúp(a)úðga
Notes
Secondary sources
General conclusion
Primary sources
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