Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 AD

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2019

Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region

Austmarr as a northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 AD

Edited by: Maths Bertell , Frog and Kendra Willson

Volume 11 in the series Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048532674

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About this book

This anthology provides an in-depth introduction to the networks shaped by the Baltic Sea, the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples.

Author / Editor information

Bertell Maths :

Maths Bertell is university lecturer in religious studies at Mid-Sweden University. He has written on Norse pre-Christian and Sámi religions and conversion in the Nordic area.Frog :

Frog is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow in folklore studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published widely on poetry and mythology in Finnic and Old Norse cultures.Willson Kendra :

Kendra Willson is a researcher in Nordic languages at the University of Turku in Finland. She works on a range of topics relating to Old Norse-Icelandic and Finnic historical linguistics and onomastics.

Reviews

"For far too long the study of the Baltic Sea has been divided along modern geopolitical borders that center on single cultures, languages, and ethnicities. This edited volume [...] overcomes such linguistic and nationalistic barriers to present an integrated approach to the contacts and networks of the Circum-Baltic region. The result is a truly interdisciplinary volume that features approachable and accessible texts in English on language, mythology, and religious practice. [...] Its individual chapter case-studies work in favor of the book's scope on the Baltic as comprised of diverse cultures, languages, and ethnic groups to ultimately demote unidirectional or unilateral models of interpretation. Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region proves that there cannot be an overarching, singular narrative of the Baltic."
- Laura Tillery, The Medieval Review, 21.09.27 (2021)

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of maps, figures and tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Note on alphabetisation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction: Looking across the Baltic Sea and over linguistic fences Frog Willson and Maths Bertell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Section 1. Mental maps
1 The northern part of the Ocean in the eyes of ancient geographers Aleksandr Podossinov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 Austmarr on the mental map of medieval Scandinavians Tatjana Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3 The connection between geographical space and collective memory in Jómsvíkinga saga Sirpa Aalto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Section 2. Mobility
4 Rune carvers traversing Austmarr? Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5 Polish noble families and noblemen of Scandinavian origin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries The case of the Awdańcy family: by which route did they come to Poland and why? Leszek Słupecki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6 A medieval trade in female slaves from the north along the Volga Jukka Korpela Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Section 3. Language
7 Ahti on the Nydam strap-ring On the possibility of Finnic elements in runic inscriptions Kendra Willson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8 Low German and Finnish revisited Mikko Bentlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Section 4. Myth and religion formation
9 Mythic logic and meta-discursive practices in the Scandinavian and Baltic regions Lauri Harvilahti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
10 The artificial bride on both sides of the Gulf of Finland The Golden Maiden in Finno-Karelian and Estonian folk poetry Karolina Kouvola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
11 Local Sámi bear ceremonialism in a Circum-Baltic perspective Maths Bertell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
12 Mythologies in transformation Symbolic transfer, hybridisation, and creolisation in the Circum-Baltic arena (illustrated through the changing roles of Tīwaz, Ilma, and Óðinn, the fishing adventure of the thunder god, and a Finno-Karelian creolisation of North Germanic religion) Frog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Indices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Other: 25 halftones, 10 line art
Keywords: contacts; circum-Baltic; archaeology; history; mythology

eBook

Published: June 28, 2019
ISBN: 9789048532674