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Namn och bygd 2022 – Tidskrift för nordisk namnforskning
Eva Nyman (ed.), Staffan Nyström (ed.), Inge Særheim (ed.)
Serie Namn och bygd, 110
Köp 95 kr
- Publicerad 2023
- Issn 0077-2704
- Namn och bygd, 110
- Typ Häftad
- 216 sidor
- Svenska
The Guta Lag’s injunctions against pagan worship: The term stafgarþr from the perspectives of taxonomy, legalese, and poetic diction
Abstract
The term stafgarþr (pl. stafgarþar), as it figures in the Laws of the Gotlanders, refers to earlier farmsteads at which natural topographical features could be combined with buildings, earlier house foundations, and the erection of stretches of palisade so as to form a sacralized enclosure and thereby move ontologically from real everyday houses, barns, byres, and fences to a sacred, inwardly focused site, on the model of other natural and earlier favored cult sites such as hills, woods, and marshes.
Nyckelord
Pre-Christian Scandinavian religion; Gotland; cult sites; place names; farm names
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