Article: Det hellige bryllaup og norron kongeideologi: En analyse av hieregami-myten i Skirnismal, Ynglingatal, Haleygjatal, og Hyndluljed.

Gro Steinsland. Oslo: Solum, 1991. Pp. 366.

Modern study of mythology and religion bears a heavy legacy of concepts defined at the beginning of the century, i.e., the sacredness of kings, the all-embracing Mother Earth, the marriage between earth and sky, and the all-importance of agricultural fertility. In the structural approach of our century, on the other hand, myth is stripped of its superhuman dimensions and has come to be a social code while scholars have also tried to fit the tales of the gods into the reconstructed pattern of a reconstructed Indo-European society.

Gro Steinsland does not use the accepted patterns and avoids the theoretical ...