John Lindow information

John Frederick Lindow (born July 23, 1946) is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California...

Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow...

"drill-tooth" (Jesse Byock, Andy Orchard, Rudolf Simek) or "bore-tooth" (John Lindow). In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, the god Odin (disguised as Grímnir)...

between Worlds, pp. 1273–1302. Brepols. Lindow, John. 2020a. "Written Sources" in Jens Peter Schjødt, John Lindow, and Anders Andrén, ed. The Pre-Christian...

John Lindow Calderwood CBE (22 January 1888 – 7 February 1960) was an English solicitor, a British Army officer and an independent politician in Wiltshire...

and for that reason she was called Nál [Needle]." According to scholar John Lindow, however, "the late date of the text makes this piece of information...

the rå and näck, who are attested as "solitary beings". According to John Lindow, what sets them apart is that they are not Christian, and those who encounter...

directly describe a fundamental belief in cyclic time. According to scholar John Lindow, "the cosmos might be formed and reformed on multiple occasions by the...

discovered at Lindow Moss Lindow Man, preserved bog body of a man discovered at Lindow Moss Al Lindow (1919–1989), American football player John Lindow (born...

"desirous, greedy, gluttonous, audacious" and Old High German freh "greedy". John Lindow interprets both Old Norse names as nominalized adjectives. Bruce Lincoln...

compounds (byggja sifjar means "to marry"). Using this etymology, scholar John Lindow gives the meanings "in-law-relationship", scholar Andy Orchard provides...

Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, ed. by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow, 2 vols (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000), II 824–32 (pp....

told in Indo-European 6,000 years ago in the Bronze Age. Folklorist John Lindow, however, notes that a word for "smith" may not have existed in Indo-European...

verbal opponent in the poem Lokasenna (Loki's Flyting). According to John Lindow, "Eldir fits the character type of the outer guardian, often a herdsman...

practice. John Lindow relates Odin's ability to send his "thought" (Huginn) and "mind" (Muninn) to the trance-state journey of shamans. Lindow says the...

consider that the valkyries also have the ability to waken the dead. John Lindow is skeptical of there having been a belief in Eir as a goddess, stating...

Iðunn Magnússson, Ásgeir Blöndal (1989), Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík Lindow, John (2001), Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs...

Ragnarsdrápa, Skáld 49, trans. A. Faulkes, 1987. According to scholar John Lindow, the reaction of cosmological elements (the earth is cracking, the sky...

Gabriel Turville-Petre, scholars such as Rudolf Simek, Andy Orchard, and John Lindow have theorized that Gullveig/Heiðr is the same figure as Freyja, and...