- most scholars.[excessive citations]
Author Richard Carrier defines "
euhemerization" as "the
taking of a
cosmic god and
placing him at a
definite point...
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lands became Christianised,
there were
attempts by
Christian writers to
euhemerize or even
demonize most of the pre-Christian deities,
while a few others...
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Eddic poetry is
relatively unadorned. The
Prose Edda
features layers of
euhemerization, a
process in
which deities and
supernatural beings are
presented as...
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century from
earlier traditional sources, and the
Prose Edda and (in
euhemerized form) Heimskringla; both
written in the 13th
century by
Snorri Sturluson...
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seemingly a
personification of snow,
appearing in
extant text as an
euhemerized legendary Scandinavian king. In the
Orkneyinga saga, Snow the Old (Snærr...
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written in the 13th
century by
Snorri Sturluson of Iceland, and in
euhemerized form as one of the Æsir in Heimskringla, also
written by
Snorri Sturluson...
- In
euhemerized accounts, the
Tuatha Dé
Danann were
descended from Nemed,
leader of a
previous wave of
inhabitants of Ireland. In non-
euhemerized accounts...
- Edda and
Prose Edda
attest that it is
owned by the god Freyr,
while the
euhemerized account in
Heimskringla attributes it to the
magic of Odin. Both Heimskringla...
- that
includes Freyja. The
Heimskringla book
Ynglinga saga
provides a
euhemerized account of the
origin of the gods,
including Freyja. In
chapter 4, Freyja...
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suggesting that the
version of the
story in
Culhwch is a
later attempt to
euhemerize an
older tale. Diwrnach's name,
which derives from
Irish Diugurach and...
