title: Old Norse Rite Blótweitzla
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metadata.value: Khlevov, Alexander A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Goubanov, Ilya B.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T14:17:34Z
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metadata.value: 2023-02-07T14:17:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Khlevov A. A., Goubanov I. B. Old Norse Rite Blótweitzla. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 4, рp. 1296–1312. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.414 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.414
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39016
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metadata.value: A serious problem in the study of the cultural characteristics of archaic Scandinavia is the verification
  of the sources. The main questions that arise: to which extent pagan ritual practices
  continued to exist after the beginning of mass Christianization, and what Christian ideas were
  extrapolated by later sources to the pre-Christian era. One of the major rituals mentioned in
  the sources — the feast of sacrificial blood, which was a crucial element of the structures of
  everyday life in pagan society, seems to be very important. A sufficiently detailed description
  of the ritual in the sources allows us to draw a number of conclusions about its role in the life
  of the ancient Scandinavians. The correspondence between the songs of the “Elder Edda” and
  the ancestral and royal sagas in the designation of objects of worship and their functions, as
  well as the preservation, even after the baptism of Iceland, of the traditional formula of the
  legal oath, which was originally given on the sacred ring of the godi, and after 1000 — on The
  Bibles, and the ancient formula of the agrarian cult (“for a harvest year and peace”) in a similar
  ritual of drinking beer in Norway at Christmas, according to Gulathing, with a high degree
  of probability confirms the historicity of ancient Icelandic information about a pre-Christian
  temple and a feast of sacrificial blood — blotweizl. In a broader context, it provides additional
  confirmation of the historicism of Icelandic sources and their extraordinary value for the process
  of reconstruction of the way of life in archaic Scandinavia.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion of archaic Scandinavia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandinavian mythology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: blótweitzla
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ritual
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oath
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pre-Christian period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Old Norse Rite Blótweitzla
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metadata.value: Article
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