The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe
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Professor Neil Price delivers the first of three lectures, September 25, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead.
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Much appreciated, this!
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27:34 The Eddas actually describe Hel as half human above the waist, and half corpse below the waist. Internet artwork you find of Hel, she is split sideways, as he describes, because it is a lot more interesting to draw that way.... So I wonder if he is wrong on this matter, or is there a conflicting description of Hel somewhere else in the texts?
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three minutes and fiftyfive seconds the guy made him stand there before he let him speak.
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You could piece it together more easily if you posited a "when" rather than a "where".
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Very, very interesting. Thank you.
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Love the lecture...but morality was definitely a point both in norse culture (obviously) but in mythology as well...havamal from the codex regius lists an awful lot of morals and wisdom....similarly, many...if not most of the tales involve morals as well.
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Embla = small flame that is left before it is extinguished or starting a fire
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Highly didactic
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Great lecture! Thank you Cornell University for uploading to youtube.!
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the scandinavian folkbelief that we as scandinavian inherited from the vikingage was living well into the 19th early 20th century of course changed modified but very living expecially "lesser beings" that people had dealings with
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has anyone managed to get that book he wrote, "The Viking Way"? I really want a copy, but it was going for 1000 freaking dollars on Amazon last time I checked, and the publisher keeps pushing back the 2nd edition by a year at a time :(
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nice plait
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Very Good. Uncommon and interesting information.
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.....would like to know more about the viking presence in the Western Isles.
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A decent lecture
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Why are "9 layers of hell/the underworld" such a common theme throughout Europe?
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A braided ponytail behind short hair is the worst of all mullets. And sooooo pretentious.
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