HI131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cú Chulainn, Poetic Edda
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Exam: 70 multiple choice we"ve seen many of them, short answer should be a 1-2 pages, think about the bigger picture and back it up with specific examples. Brief history of sweden, denmark, iceland, ireland, and england: These culture although today they seem very different, have very common roots and their myths are connected in many ways. In these stories you should recognize similar motifs. The impact of christianity, myths are no longer specific to certain regions but are connected on an international level. Is a small, isolated island compared to the others. We have a culture that, by the time of this stories are a metal age, agricultural society with no central power. It"s a very segmented society with a lot of conflict between each of the groups. The story may have some truth in the; represent some sort of history.
