Four Myths about the Crusades
Four Myths about the Crusades By Paul Crawford The Intercollegiate Review (Spring, 2011) Abstract In 2001, former president Bill Clinton delivered a speech…
Odin and his Brothers: Common Threads of the Odinic Tradition
Within the Poetic Edda Odin, Lodur (Loki) and Haenir are responsible for the creation of humanity in Nordic mythology.
A King, A Ghost, Two Wives, and the Triumph of Love: Romance, Confession and Penance in Sir Orfeo and The Gast of Gy
A King, A Ghost, Two Wives, and the Triumph of Love: Romance, Confession and Penance in Sir Orfeo and The Gastof Gy Noone, Kristin…
Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century
Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century Kieckhefer, Richard Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer (2006) Abstract The European witch…
WITCHES IN BALTIC FAIRY TALES
WITCHES IN BALTIC FAIRY TALES Gliwa, Bernd Onomasiology Online 4 (2003) Abstract The following article discusses names for witches in Lithuanian and Latvian…
“Charity Refused and Curses Uttered in Chaucer’s Friar’s Tale”
“Charity Refused and Curses Uttered in Chaucer’s Friar’s Tale” Culver, Jennifer Hortulus, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2008) Abstract This article illustrates how the widow…
“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain” by Hannah Priest
“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain” Priest, Hannah Hortulus, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2008)…
Chaucer and Old Norse Mythology
Chaucer, I am arguing, made use in The House of Fame of a version of the story falling somewhere between the Norse and the Irish versions, the latter of which, as I hope I haveproduced sufficient evidence to show, had become combined with traditions relating to (St) Brigid well before the time of Giraldus (d.1223), who in turn was writing well before the time of Chaucer (d.1400).
Sheep and goats in Norse paganism
At Odin’s Valhalla the well-known goat Heidrun eats leaves, and clear mead fl ows from her udder into the beakers of the warriors.