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Seiðr
Šebetovská, Michaela ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Starý, Jiří (referee)
SEIÐR Michaela Šebetovská AAAABSTRACTBSTRACTBSTRACTBSTRACT The thesis is about an Old-Norse practice called seiðr, which was performed as a prophetic and magical ritual, according to some authors similarly to shamanic ones. The emphasis is put on information obtained from the Old-Norse textual sources. Despite their fragmentary nature, the aim of this work is to make a well-arranged summary of the facts provided by these primary sources. The main subjects are the beings performing seiðr, their characteristics, place in society, equipment and conditions required for the ritual and its goal. This information is then used for interpretation and a detailed analysis of several aspects of seiðr.
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Seiðr
Šebetovská, Michaela ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Starý, Jiří (referee)
SEIÐR Michaela Šebetovská AAAABSTRACTBSTRACTBSTRACTBSTRACT The thesis is about an Old-Norse practice called seiðr, which was performed as a prophetic and magical ritual, according to some authors similarly to shamanic ones. The emphasis is put on information obtained from the Old-Norse textual sources. Despite their fragmentary nature, the aim of this work is to make a well-arranged summary of the facts provided by these primary sources. The main subjects are the beings performing seiðr, their characteristics, place in society, equipment and conditions required for the ritual and its goal. This information is then used for interpretation and a detailed analysis of several aspects of seiðr.
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Ásgarð, Miðgarð a Útgarð: mutual relationships and their interpretation
Michalíková, Jana ; Starý, Jiří (advisor) ; Kadečková, Helena (referee)
This paper attempts to systematize Old Norse cosmographical notions. It deals with two spacial cosmological concepts - the vertical and the horizontal one. At first, it examines each of these concepts separately, it introduces their structuralist interpretations as well as later critiques of these interpretations. Further on, it examines whether both of these spacial concepts are really sustainable in primary literature and whether their form really corresponds with structuralist models. On basis of critical approach to sources it defines a new model of verticality. The major focus of the paper is to analyze mutual reletionship of these two spacial cosmological concepts, to specify contexts in which they usually appear in the primary sources and to examine their function.
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