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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 ... Aboensis) (English and German Edition)

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This book is the published proceedings of a conference and is entitled 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 Abo, Finland, on the 19th-21st of August 1987, edited by Tore Ahlbäck (Abo: 1990, The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, Abo/Finland). The level of scholarship is very high in the 22 published articles, of which 6 are in German and the rest in English. The viewpoints are not very pro-Christian, and seem at times to be almost pro-Heathen! Some of the titles of papers published in English include: "Old Norse and Finnish Religions," "Singing of Incantations in Nordic Tradition," "The Study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries. Some Reflections," "The Position of the Individual Gods and Goddesses in Various Types of Sources - with Special Reference to the Female Divinities," "Pagan Myth in Confrontation with Christianity," "Old Scandinavian and Christian Eschatology," Scandinavian-Saami Religious Connections in the History of Research," "Personal Piety in Nordic Heathenism," "Views on Cultic Place-Names in Denmark: A Review of Research," "The Change of Religion and the Names," and "Cult Sites in Northern Sweden." Some of the articles even include maps.