ePub Metaphysis: Ritual; Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum) by F Blakolmer in History

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Were there Vikings in Finland? This book is intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the Viking Age in Finland. The volume consists of a general introduction followed by nineteen chapters and a closing discussion. The nineteen chapters are oriented to provide introductions to the sources; methods and perspectives of diverse disciplines. Discussions are presented from fields including archaeology; folklore studies; genetics; geopolitics; historiography; language history; linguistics; palaeobotany; semiotics and toponymy. Each chapter is intended to help open the resources and the history of discourse of the particular discipline in a way that will be accessible to specialists from other fields; specialists from outside Finland; and also to non-specialist readers and students who may be more generally interested in the topic.