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Hultgård, Anders
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Hultgård, A. (2024). Travelling myths or Indo-European tradition?: The Irano-Scandinavian correspondences. In: Jenny Larsson; Thomas Olander; Anders Richardt Jørgensen (Ed.), Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology (pp. 91-102). Stockholm: Stockholm University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Travelling myths or Indo-European tradition?: The Irano-Scandinavian correspondences
2024 (English)In: Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology / [ed] Jenny Larsson; Thomas Olander; Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2024, p. 91-102Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The presence of striking similarities between Scandinavian and Iranian myths has long attracted the curiosity of scholars. The attempts of explaining them follow mainly two lines of reasoning. The first one holds that traditions from Iran spread to northern Europe through different ways in the first millennium CE. The other way round was not proposed – unless we mention Olof Rudbeck and his Atlantica of the 17th century. The second one emphasizes the idea of common Indo-European roots. In this chapter the arguments of both explanation models are discussed and evaluated. Some of the correspondences that have been previously known and discussed by scholars, such as the great winter and the mythic wisdom contest, will be reconsidered. Attention will also be paid to some similarities so far not elaborated, e.g. the anthropogonic myth and the eschatological battle. In the discussion I will point out the problems of the comparative approach but also its advantages. The conclusion to be drawn is that the similarities between Scandinavian and Iranian mythology essentially go back to a shared heritage of myths belonging to the Indo-European period.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2024
Series
Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture, ISSN 2004-9080 ; 1
National Category
History of Religions History of Science and Ideas History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-557521 (URN)10.16993/bcn.e (DOI)001372533000005 ()978-91-7635-218-2 (ISBN)978-91-7635-219-9 (ISBN)978-91-7635-220-5 (ISBN)978-91-7635-221-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-05-28 Created: 2025-05-28 Last updated: 2025-05-28Bibliographically approved
Hultgård, A. (2019). Om Vafþrúðnismál. Scripta Islandica: Isländska Sällskapets Årsbok, 70, 7-16
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Om Vafþrúðnismál
2019 (Swedish)In: Scripta Islandica: Isländska Sällskapets Årsbok, ISSN 0582-3234, E-ISSN 2001-9416, Vol. 70, p. 7-16Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Vafþrúðnismál is composed as a wisdom contest between a god and a giant. The genre itself has parallells elsewhere. Medieval literature often used the dialogue form to convey knowledge on religious matters. An influence on the eddic poem from Christian texts has been argued. Closer correspondances are found in the Indo-Iranian tradition, however. The author concludes that the framework of Vafþrúðnismál represents an ancient genre with roots in the Indo-European past.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala University - Department of Scandinavian Languages, 2019
Keywords
Vafþrúðnismál, Poetic Edda, wisdom contest, Scandinavian mythol­ogy, Odin, Avesta, Anāhitā, Veda, horse sacrifice, brahmódya-
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-400601 (URN)10.33063/diva-400601 (DOI)
Note

https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-400601

Available from: 2019-12-30 Created: 2019-12-30 Last updated: 2025-02-13Bibliographically approved
Hultgård, A. (2017). Midgård brinner: Ragnarök i religionshistorisk belysning. Uppsala: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Midgård brinner: Ragnarök i religionshistorisk belysning
2017 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2017. p. 465
Series
Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, ISSN 0065-0897 ; 146
Keywords
Ragnarök, Religionshistoria, Världens undergång
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412978 (URN)978-91-87403-23-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-06-12 Created: 2020-06-12 Last updated: 2020-08-07Bibliographically approved
Hultgård, A. (2004). Ritual Community Meals in Ancient Iranian Religion. In: Zoroastrian Rituals in Context: (pp. 733). Brill: Leiden
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ritual Community Meals in Ancient Iranian Religion
2004 (English)In: Zoroastrian Rituals in Context, Brill: Leiden , 2004, p. 733-Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brill: Leiden, 2004
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18703 (URN)90 04 13131 0 (ISBN)
Available from: 2006-11-21 Created: 2006-11-21 Last updated: 2017-12-20
Hultgård, A. (2004). Theologie im alten Iran. In: Theologie in Israel und in den Nachbarkulturen: (pp. 75-91). LitVerlag, Münster
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Theologie im alten Iran
2004 (English)In: Theologie in Israel und in den Nachbarkulturen, LitVerlag, Münster , 2004, p. 75-91Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
LitVerlag, Münster, 2004
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-19433 (URN)3-8258-5456-6 (ISBN)
Available from: 2006-11-28 Created: 2006-11-28 Last updated: 2017-12-20
Hultgård, A. (2002). Creation and Emanation: Zoroastrian reflections on the cosmogonic myth. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 26, 91-108
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Creation and Emanation: Zoroastrian reflections on the cosmogonic myth
2002 (English)In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, ISSN 0334-4118, Vol. 26, p. 91-108Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18845 (URN)
Available from: 2006-11-23 Created: 2006-11-23 Last updated: 2023-11-14
Hultgård, A. (2000). La chute de Satan: L'arrière-plan iranien d'un logion de Jésus (Luc 10,18). Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 80(1), 69-77
Open this publication in new window or tab >>La chute de Satan: L'arrière-plan iranien d'un logion de Jésus (Luc 10,18)
2000 (English)In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, Vol. 80, no 1, p. 69-77Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18843 (URN)
Available from: 2006-11-23 Created: 2006-11-23 Last updated: 2017-12-20
Hultgård, A. (1998). The Magi and the Star. The Persian Background in Texts and Iconography. In: "Being Religious and Living through the Eyes": Studies in Religious Iconography and Iconology (pp. 215-225). Uppsala Universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Magi and the Star. The Persian Background in Texts and Iconography
1998 (English)In: "Being Religious and Living through the Eyes": Studies in Religious Iconography and Iconology, Uppsala Universitet , 1998, p. 215-225Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala Universitet, 1998
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-19432 (URN)91-554-4199-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2006-11-28 Created: 2006-11-28 Last updated: 2017-12-20
Hultgård, A. (1997). Rec. av Lotte Motz: The King, The Champion and The Sorcerer. A Study of Germanic Myth; Wien: Fassbaender, 1996 [Review]. Temenos, 33, 283-286
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Rec. av Lotte Motz: The King, The Champion and The Sorcerer. A Study of Germanic Myth; Wien: Fassbaender, 1996
1997 (English)In: Temenos, Vol. 33, p. 283-286Article, book review (Other academic) Published
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-34536 (URN)
Available from: 2008-03-18 Created: 2008-03-18 Last updated: 2017-12-20
Hultgård, A. (Ed.). (1997). Uppsala och Adam av Bremen. Nora: Bokförlaget Nya Doxa
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Uppsala och Adam av Bremen
1997 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nora: Bokförlaget Nya Doxa, 1997
Series
Religionshistoriska forskningsrapporter från Uppsala ; 11
Keywords
Religion, Fornnordisk, Kyrkohistoria
National Category
History of Religions
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-50460 (URN)
Note

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Available from: 2008-10-17 Created: 2008-10-17 Last updated: 2025-04-10Bibliographically approved
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