For those curious about what I meant here by the constellation of Bear King myths check out my posts Hunting the European Sky Bears, Beware rousing the sleeping bear and Bärensohnmärchen.
And while you’re at it you might want to give these articles a quick read through, which discuss the presence of the Labyrinth in the Northern lands too:
- Zavaroni Adolfo, Souls across the Labyrinth: Representations of Rebirth in the Bronze/Iron Age in Europe
- Angelo Fossati, Following Arianna’s Thread Symbolic Figures at Female Rock Art Sites at Naquane and In Valle, Valcamonica, Italy
- Joanna M. Lawrence, Phallic Representations in Bronze Age Scandinavian Rock Art: Contexts, Associations, and Interpretations
- Caroline Malim, Mazes, Minotaurs and Maidens: Evidence for the Cult of the Labyrinth and the Cycle of Life
- Umberto Sansoni, Alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age, a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences
- wonderMondo, Stone labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
And for good measure, here’s a selection of links pertinent to the Starry Bear proto-tradition:
- Katerina Amanatidou, The cult of Dionysos in the Black Sea region
- Andrea Namerova, Relations Between Scythians and Greeks in Black Sea Area
- Antti Lampinen, Istae contra omnium religiones: Characterizing Northern Barbarian religiosity in the Graeco-Roman Literary Tradition from Hellenism to the Later Roman Empire
- Svala Lind Birnudóttir, Rómverja saga: an introduction and a translation
- Alberto Aldrovandi, Loki in Pavia, a Langobard Demon
- Gala N. Lee, An Examination of Liquids in the Poetic Edda: with examples from the Prose Edda and other sources
- Terry Gunnell, The Rights of the Player: Evidence of Mimi and Histriones in Early Medieval Scandinavia
- Jeffrey Turco, Nets and Snares: The Loki of Snorri’s Edda and the Christian Tradition
- Alexei Plokhov, An interesting Find from Staraya Ladoga: A Representation of Freyja?
- Meghan Mattsson McGinnis, Depending on Sex? Tongue, sieve, and ladle shaped pendants from late Iron Age Gotland
- Alberto Aldrovandi, On the Langobard Funerary Perticae Again
- Yulia Ustinova, Lycanthropy in Sarmatian Warrior Societies: The Kobyakovo Torque
- Stephen Mitchell, Óðinn, Charms and Necromancy: Hávamál 157 in its Nordic and European Contexts
- Amy Jefford Franks, Óðinn: A Queer tyr? A Study of Óðinn’s Function in Iron Age Scandinavia
- Olof Sundqvist, Odin and Mithras: religious acculturation during the Roman Iron Age and the Migration Period
- Brent Landon Johnson, In Search of Vanaheimr
- Terry Gunnell, Blótgyðjur, Goðar, Mimi, Incest, and Wagons: Oral Memories of the Religion(s) of the Vanir
- Zbigniew Kobylinski and Kamil Rabiega, The symbolic role of boats and ships in pagan and Christian Medieval Northern Europe
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Ármann Jakobsson, The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North
- Sörla Þáttur eða Héðins Saga ok Högna
- Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Dancorum Book 7
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Veronica Donato, The Sorceress’ Stone: Deviant Burial in Viking Age Scandinavia
- Stanislaw Sielicki, Indo-Iranian parallels of the Slavic water and fire rites of the oath and guilt confirmation attested in Saxo Grammaticus’ and other Latin authors’ accounts, and Slavic law codices
- Csaba Bálint, Traces of Germanic mythology from the 6th-7th century Carpathian Basin based on archaeological finds
- Madis Arukask, The Personal Rituals of the Finnic Peoples with Forest Trees
And if you want to get a better sense of what I mean by the folk level religiosity so often ignored by contemporary Heathen groups visit my other site eklogai | polytheist extractions, particularly this tag.
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