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Journal articles on the topic "Yggdrasil (Norse mythology)"

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Gilmore, Amanda. "Trees as a Central Theme in Norse Mythology and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 23 (December 1, 2016): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/scancan117.

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ABSTRACT: This article, the inaugural winner of the journal’s Gurli Aagaard Woods Undergraduate Publication Award, combines the analysis of ancient literature with an archaeological approach in an effort to further interpret the presence and significance of trees in medieval Scandinavian culture. The analysis of textual references to trees such as Yggdrasill and Barnstokkr found in the Norse works Völuspá, Grímnismál, Gylfaginning, and Völsunga Saga, are combined with academic articles, juxtaposed with the examination of archaeological sites at Fröso, Herresta, Bjarsgård, Österfärnebo, and Karmøy, and integrated with modern Scandinavian attitudes to explore an interest in tree-human relationships, literature, and archaeology in medieval Scandinavia.

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Ryle, Jadranka. "Reinventing the Yggdrasil: Hilma af Klint and Political Aesthetics." Nordic Journal of Art and Research 7, no. 1 (June 21, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/information.v7i1.2629.

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The Yggdrasil, the holy tree of Norse mythology, is central to Hilma af Klint’s series of paintings from 1913/15: Tree of Knowledge. As with the Biblical Tree of Knowledge from Eden that is echoed in Christ’s cross, the Yggdrasil allows for the salvation of humanity in Norse mythology. During the nineteenth century, the Nordic National Romantic movement turned the Norse myth towards a politics of nationalism and nationhood. Taking as her point of departure these aestheticised nationalisms, af Klint’s abstraction redirects Nordic romanticism towards an alternative political aesthetic. Locating an intertwining of genders at the heart of the Yggdrasil tradition, her androgynous abstraction subverts the nationalist and patriarchal romanticism of the nineteenth century Yggdrasil. Central to af Klint’s aesthetic subversion is the troubled history of theosophy’s engagement with Nordic myth. The Yggdrasil was revived in Helena Blavatsky's theosophy, and Rudolf Steiner constructed a theory of Aryanism in his readings of Nordic myth. Although af Klint was a keen student of theosophic eclecticism, using the discipline as a model for her stylistic hybrid combinations of esoteric, scientific, mythical, and modern motifs, her turn to the Yggdrasil should be read as constituting a distinct break from theosophic Nordism.

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Hauglid, Kjartan. "Foliate Head in Medieval Norway." Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 17, no. 2 (July 13, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23944.

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The foliate head is a common motif in the architectural decoration of Norwegian stave churches. It is commonly used in doorways, where beast’s heads are disgorging foliage or are spewing stems with vine. The artistic style of wooden church decoration in Norway from the eleventh and twelfth centuries clearly shows inspiration from Viking art. This legacy has led to the belief that Christianity inherited the foliate head from a heathen past. This understanding is mainly due to a need for more convincing explanations for this motif. However, it is also due to the high status of trees in Old Norse society, especially Yggdrasill, the great tree that in Norse mythology constituted the center of the world. The article traces the sources for the motif in Norwegian architectural sculpture and the notion of the Green Man in the scholarly tradition in Norway. The Green Man was absent in Viking art, and the motif first appearedin Scandinavia in Romanesque architectural stone sculpture in the early twelfth century.

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Books on the topic "Yggdrasil (Norse mythology)"

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Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013.

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Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013.

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Murphy, G. Ronald. Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013.

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Leaves of Yggdrasil: A synthesis of runes, gods, magic, feminine mysteries, and folklore. St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A: Llewellyn Publications, 1990.

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Morgan, Christine, Eddie D. Moore, Jade Black, R. A. Goli, Cindar Harrell, Victor H. Rodriguez, Amelia Sirina, Jane Dougherty, Lisa M. Landreth, and Tony Daly. Beneath Yggdrasil's Shadow: Forgotten Goddesses of Norse Mythology. Fantasia Divinity, 2018.

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Yggdrasill: La religion des anciens Scandinaves. Paris: Payot, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Yggdrasil (Norse mythology)"

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Andrews, Tamra. "Y." In Dictionary of Nature Myths, 230–31. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195136777.003.0025.

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Abstract Yggdrasil of Norse mythology was an enormous evergreen ash and a classic illustration of the world tree, a concept common to many European and Asian cosmologies. Yggdrasil marked the center of the world and it overshadowed everything in existence. Its roots delved into the Underworld and its branches spread over the sky. Its leaves became the clouds, its fruits the stars, and its trunk the support of the nine worlds that made up the earth, the sky, and the Underworld.

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