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Asclepio ; 61(1): 195-218, 2009.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19753693

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This paper seeks evidence among our extensive Scandinavian mythological texts for an area which they seldom discuss explicitly: the conceptualisation and handling of illness and healing. Its core evidence is two runic texts (the Canterbury Rune-Charm and the Sigtuna Amulet) which conceptualise illness as a "purs" ("ogre, monster"). The article discusses the semantics of "purs," arguing that illness and supernatural beings could be conceptualised as identical in medieval Scandinavia. This provides a basis for arguing that myths in which gods and heroes fight monsters provided a paradigm for the struggle with illness.


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Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid , Literature, Medieval , Medicine, Traditional , Mythology , Religion , Social Conditions , Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid/ethnology , Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid/history , Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid/psychology , Anthropology, Cultural/education , Anthropology, Cultural/history , Faith Healing/education , Faith Healing/history , Faith Healing/psychology , History of Medicine , History, Medieval , Illness Behavior/physiology , Language , Literature, Medieval/history , Medicine, Traditional/history , Morals , Mythology/psychology , Religion/history , Scandinavian and Nordic Countries/ethnology , Social Conditions/history
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