Reassessing pseudo-procreation in Old Norse literature
The article reassesses Margaret Clunies Ross’s highly influential argument for a pseudo-procreative ideology inherent in Old Norse creation myths, which valorised male spiritual and cultural creative endeavours as superior to the ordinary processes of physiological female reproduction. Th...
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Viking Society for Northern Research
2022
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