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Of old was the age when Ymir lived ...: Order and Chaos in Old Norse

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010

Abstract

The chapter undertake an analysis of the main concepts of chaos (mythological, religious, social chaos) as we find them in Old Norse sources. Attention is paid not only to singular forms of the chaotic but also to their interdependence and the way the society tried to prevent them.