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religions of the north project we have called the “semantic core” of the
deity, was part of the cultural competence of people in differing times and
places. the details vary more or less endlessly, but the core is fairly stable.
that is something any folklorist could tell you.
It is impossible to study the pre-Christian religion of the north with-
out the requisite philological skills – that is a given, as is the necessity for
consideration of the material record and the use of comparison. But it is
easier to make sense of the material if we employ the understanding within
folkloristics of cultural competence and the significance of stability and
variation.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
M A N U S C R I P T S
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
aM 544 4to (Hauksbók)
GKS 2365 4to (Konungsbók Eddukvæða)
P R I M A R Y S O U R C E S
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———. Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Berlin: in der real schulbuchhandlung, 1812–
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Grundtvig, Svend. Danmarks gamle folkeviser, vol. 1. Copenhagen: forlaget af
samfundet til den danske litteraturs fremme, 1853.
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