Obscure Creatures: the ambiguous nature of the Urnes stave church carvings

Obscure Creatures: the ambiguous nature of the Urnes stave church carvings

This paper explores the framing of Christianity through Old Norse religion via material culture as exhibited by the iconography of the façade of the stave church at Urnes, Lustrafjord, Norway. This paper addresses fluidity between belief systems while considering the geographical origins of the faça...

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Main Author: Snow, Andrea C.
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2016
Subjects:
conversion
eikthyrnir
fenrir
iconography
paganism
urnes stave church
Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1847
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2861&context=theses

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https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1847
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2861&context=theses

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