Publication: THE TRANSMUTATION OF THE DRAUGR: CHRISTIANIZING ICELANDIC MYTHOLOGY
| dc.contributor.author | Esten, Kathrine | |
| dc.date | 2023-11-29T16:11:39.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-26T22:27:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-21T00:00:00Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | If the dead will not stay dead, what can you count on? The better question may be: Why aren’t the dead staying dead? In this essay, I examine the draugr (pl. draugar), an undead creature of pagan Norse origin, as described before and after the adoption of Christianity in Iceland in 1000 CE. Featured prominently in pre-conversion folklore, the draugr often symbolized Icelandic fears of isolation, starvation, and darkness. However, The Sagas of Icelanders, written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, features a reimagined draugr. Intentionally, post-conversion draugar return from the dead in accordance with Catholic practice or lack thereof. The transmutation of the pagan draugr into a religious symbol took place to benefit ecclesiastical authority. Combining psychological and literary analysis of the draugr with historic developments in Iceland and the Catholic Church, I argue that Christian authors manipulated mythology to reaffirm Church authority in a troubled political time. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.7275/h8gh-t811 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/50378 | |
| dc.relation.url | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=umuhj&unstamped=1 | |
| dc.source.beginpage | 50 | |
| dc.source.endpage | 74 | |
| dc.source.status | published | |
| dc.subject | History | |
| dc.title | THE TRANSMUTATION OF THE DRAUGR: CHRISTIANIZING ICELANDIC MYTHOLOGY | |
| dc.type | primarysourcebasedarticle | |
| dc.type | article | |
| digcom.contributor.author | Esten, Kathrine | |
| digcom.date.embargo | 2023-11-21T00:00:00-08:00 | |
| digcom.identifier | umuhj/vol4/iss1/3 | |
| digcom.identifier.contextkey | 36327811 | |
| digcom.identifier.submissionpath | umuhj/vol4/iss1/3 | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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