Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908–1978)
Författare till Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
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Verk av Gabriel Turville-Petre
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Turville-Petre, Edward Oswald Gabriel
- Födelsedag
- 1908-03-25
- Avled
- 1978-02-17
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Bosworth Hall, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Oxfordshire, England, UK
Iceland - Utbildning
- University of Oxford (Christ Church)
Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, England, UK - Yrken
- professor
- Relationer
- Turville-Petre, Joan (wife)
Tolkien, J. R. R. (teacher)
Turville-Petre, Thorlac (son) - Organisationer
- Oxford University
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Fellow, British Academy (1973)
Knight of the Falcon (Iceland)
Member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy (Sweden)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Statistik
- Verk
- 9
- Även av
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 103
- Popularitet
- #185,855
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 12
- Språk
- 2
Also that Odin, the god of war, was the chief god of northeasterly Scandinavia, but Thor, the protecting god, was the foremost god of southeast Scandinavia and Iceland, presumably because they needed more protection there, protection mostly from the kings of Norway.
It is fortunate that some historians of the 12th and 13th centuries, like Snorri Sturluson and Saxo Grammaticus, wrote out these myths.… (mer)