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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2017  
         
  Article:   RE-WRITING OLD NORSE MYTHOLOGY – SIRI PETTERSEN’S ODINSBARN / RESCRIEREA MITOLOGIEI NORDICE - ROMANUL LUI SIRI PETTERSEN – ODINSBARN.

Authors:  CRISTINA VIȘOVAN.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2017.3.13

Published Online: 2017-09-30
Published Print: 2017-09-30

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Re-writing Old Norse Mythology – Siri Pettersen’s Odinsbarn. The article focuses on one of the contemporary Norwegian novels that re-write Old Norse mythology. It discusses the various myths or elements of the old mythology that are re-written in a new form, so that the author, Siri Pettersen, can create a mythopoeia which seems unfamiliar at first sight but which, on a deeper level, brings forth associations with the Old Norse mythology. The result is a fantastic world that has many of the characteristics of the world that we live in.

Key Words: re-writing, Old Norse mythology, Odin, anthropogenic myth, Valhalla, Ragnarok, Huldra, Yggdrasil, Bivrost
 
         
     
         
         
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