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Old Norse and Finnish Religions and Cultic Place-Names Old Norse and Finnish Religions and Cultic Place-Names Based on Papers read at the Symposium on Encounters between Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names held at Åbo, Finland, on the 19th—21st of August 1987 Edited by TORE AHLBÄCK Published by The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History Åbo/Finland Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International Stockiiolm/Sweden ISSN 0582-3226 ISBN 951-649-695-4 Typesetting by Ann-Mari Dahlström, Åbo, Finland Printed in Finland by KOTEVA, Åbo 1990 Contents Editorial Note 7 Carl-Martin Edsman Opening Address at the Symposium on Encounters between Religions in Old Nordic Times and on Cultic Place-Names, arranged by the Donner Institute 19-21 August 1987 9 Old Norse and Finnish Religion Jens Peter Schjødt Horizontale und vertikale Achsen in der vorchristlichen skandinavischen Kosmologie 35 Preben Meulengracht Sørensen Der Runen-Stein von Rök und Snorri Sturluson — oder ‘Wie aussagekräftig sind unsere Quellen zur Religionsgeschichte der Wikingerzeit?’ 58 Juha Pentikäinen Child Abandonment as an Indicator of Christianization in the Nordic Countries 72 Unto Salo Agricola’s Ukko in the light of archaeology. A chronological and interpretative study of ancient Finnish religion 92 Anna-Leena Siikala Singing of Incantations in Nordic Tradition 191 Jon Hnefill Aðalsteinsson Opferbeschreibungen in christlichen Schriften 206 Jonas GÍslason Acceptance of Christianity in Iceland in the Year 1000 (999) 223 Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad The Study of the Christianization of the Nordic countries. Some Reflections 256 Ottar Grønvik Der Runenstein von Tanum— ein religionsgeschichtliches Denkmal aus urnordischer Zeit 273 Else Mundal The Position of the Individual Gods and Goddesses in Various Types of Sources — with Special Reference to the Female Divinities 294 Gro Steinsland Pagan Myth in Confrontation with Christianity: Skirnismal and Genesis 316 Marianne Görman Nordic and Celtic. Religion in Southern Scandinavia during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age 329 Anders Hultgård Old Scandinavian and Christian Eschatology 344 Håkan Rydving Scandinavian-Saami Religious Connections in the History of Research 358 Åke V. Ström Personal Piety in Nordic Heathenism 374 Cultic Place-Names Bente Holmberg Views on Cultic Place-Names in Denmark A Review of Research 381 John Kousgård Sørensen The Change of Religion and the Names 394 Mauno Koski A Finnic Holy Word and itsSubsequent History 404 Sven Benson Einige Personennamen und Götternamen in schwedischen Ortsnamen 441 Stefan Brink Cult Sites in Northern Sweden 458 Lennart Elmevik Aschw. Lytis- in Ortsnamen. Ein kultisches Element oder ein profanes? 490
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