Weather Magic in Medieval Scandinavia

Weather Magic in Medieval Scandinavia explores how people in medieval Scandinavia understood and attempted to influence the weather through magic. Covering the period from c. 800 to 1555 ??, the book reveals how storms, winds, and divine tempests shaped not only medieval imagination but also law, ritual, and power across the North.Drawing on Old Norse sagas, poetry, law codes, religious texts, arc...