Episode 4: Beliefs Before the Viking Age with Dr. Felix Lummer

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Myths of Midgard

Ryan Eckerson

4 episodes

6 days ago

Myths of Midgard is a podcast for all things Norse. Mythology, sagas, poetry, runes, and more. My goal is to provide you information with scholarly commentary. About me: I have a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Tennessee and an M.A. in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies from the University of Iceland.

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Episode 4: Beliefs Before the Viking Age with Dr. Felix Lummer

Myths of Midgard

57 minutes 20 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 4: Beliefs Before the Viking Age with Dr. Felix Lummer

In this episode, Dr. Felix Lummer, lecturer at the University of Iceland, briefly discusses scholarly knowledge of Germanic beliefs before the Viking Age. DISCLAIMER: THERE ARE IMAGES OF DECEASED PEOPLE IN THIS VIDEO. Dr. Lummer received his PhD from the University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences. His dissertation is titled "Lost in Translation: Adapting Supernatural Concepts from Old French Chivalric Literature into the Old Norse riddarasögur." Notable publications: Lummer, Felix. "The Translation of Magic in the Translated riddarasǫgur," Medium Ævum, 91(2) (2022): 201-235. Lummer, Felix. "'ek hræðumz ekki þik' – The dvergar in Translated riddarasǫgur," European Journal of Scandinavian Studies,51(2) (2021b): 335-355. https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2020-2022. For more, please see his Academia.edu page: https://independent.academia.edu/FelixLummer