IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1522: Northern Travels and Meetings, I: Fishy Tales from the North?

Sponsor:	Creating the New North Research Programme, Universitetet i Tromsø
Organiser:	Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Moderator/Chair:	Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Paper 1522-a	Bearded Women and Sea Monsters?: Reports from the North before 1200 (Language: English) Miriam Tveit, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø Index terms: Economics - Trade, Mentalities, Pagan Religions, Social History
Paper 1522-c	Images and Representations of the Extreme North at the End of the Middle Ages (Language: English) Rune Blix Hagen, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet Index terms: Economics - Trade, Mentalities, Pagan Religions, Social History
Abstract	Norway north of the Arctic Circle was a region rich in natural resources. It was in regular commercial contact with other parts of western Europe, although it remained largely unvisited and unknown. Ways of making a living and the cultures of the inhabitants were misrepresented through confused and often fantastic accounts of the region as a peripheral area of primitive but noble savages, wonders, and oddities.