9781968394066 - initiation rites of young men and male warrior brotherhoods in early germanic culture: a contribution to the study of germanic and nordic antiquity and folklore (billinge translations) von weiser, lily (3 Ergebnisse)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on an exceptionally broad range of sources - including Tacitus, Old Norse sagas, heroic legend, folklore, and comparative Indo-European material - Dr. Lily Weiser reconstructs the religious, social, and psychological foundations of youth initiations and männerbünde. She situates Germa…nic practices within the wider context of global rites of passage, tracing themes of death and rebirth, liminality, ecstatic transformation, animal symbolism, masking, and the formation of warrior elites. Particular attention is given to berserkers, wolf and bear warriors, secret leagues of young men, and their gradual transformation under changing social, legal, and religious conditions. What distinguishes this work is its methodological seriousness. Weiser balances comparative folklore with close attention to Germanic cultural conditions, avoiding speculation while illuminating patterns that later scholars - most notably Otto Höfler and Neil Price - would build upon. Her analysis reveals how deeply embedded initiation rites and warrior associations were in Germanic religion, myth, and social structure, and how their remnants persisted long after their original institutional forms had faded.
