- Series Foreword [David Elmer, Casey Dué, Gregory Nagy, and Stephen Mitchell]
- Foreword [Joseph Harris]
- Preface: Situating Old Norse Mythology in Comparative Contexts [Pernille Hermann, Stephen Mitchell, and Jens Peter Schjødt]
- Acknowledgements
- I. Theoretical and Conceptual Comparisons
- Pre-Christian Religions of the North and the Need for Comparativism: Reflections on Why, How, and with What We Can Compare [Jens Peter Schjødt]
- Methodological Challenges to the Study of Old Norse Myths: The Orality and Literacy Debate Reframed [Pernille Hermann]
- Framing the Hero: Medium and Metalepsis in Old Norse Heroic Narrative [Kate Heslop]
- The Æsir and Their Idols [Jonas Wellendorf]
- II. Local and Neighboring Traditions
- Blótgyðjur, Goðar, Mimi, Incest, and Wagons: Oral Memories of the Religion(s) of the Vanir [Terry Gunnell]
- Volund Was Here: A Myth Archaeologically Anchored in Viking Age Scania [Torun Zachrisson]
- The Temple, the Tree, and the Well: A Topos or Cosmic Symbolism at Cultic Sites in Pre-Christian Northern Europe? [Olof Sundqvist]
- The Mythic Sun: An Areal Perspective [Thomas A. DuBois]
- Comparing Balto-Finnic and Nordic Mythologies [John Lindow]
- III. Global Traditions
- Snorri and the Jews [Richard Cole]
- Creation from Fire in Snorri’s Edda: The Tenets of a Vernacular Theory of Geothermal Activity in Old Norse Myth [Mathias Nordvig]
- Óðinn, Charms, and Necromancy: Hávamál 157 in Its Nordic and European Contexts [Stephen A. Mitchell]
- Vermin Gone Bad in Medieval Scandinavian, Persian, and Irish Traditions [Joseph Falaky Nagy]
- Baldr and Iraj: Murdered and Avenged [Emily Lyle]
- Ymir in India, China—and Beyond [Michael Witzel]
- Index
PUBLICATIONS OF THE MILMAN PARRY COLLECTION OF ORAL LITERATURE
Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature 3
Old Norse Mythology—Comparative Perspectives
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