Óðinn and the Mead : The Two-Faced Myth
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F21%3A10437109" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/21:10437109 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KdkueN71gW" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KdkueN71gW</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.126485" target="_blank" >10.1484/J.VMS.5.126485</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Óðinn and the Mead : The Two-Faced Myth
Original language description
Two myths that describe Óðinn's quest for the Sacred Mead are presented side by side in Hávamál - the myth of the self-sacrifice on the Tree and the journey to Suttungr!s hall. While their protagonist, the quest, and the boon are their connecting points, their content is otherwise completely different and the myths are usually interpreted as two unconnected stories. The difference could be expressed as a series of oppositions: simplex-complex, static-dynamic, passive-active, etc. Their contrast is so pronounced that it paradoxically seems to point to their deeper connection. This text presents an interpretation that connects both myths and explains their systematic contras. It uses Snorri!s description of a trance state ascribed to Óðinn and shows how one of the myths corresponds to the situation of the symbolically dead body while the other myth corresopnds to the active aspect of the person travelling to the Otherworld. The pattern applied to the two Odinic myths is then analysed and other applications are suggested.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia [online]
ISSN
2030-9902
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
Neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
17
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
135-164
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85129750929