Contents

A note on Greek and Latin sources

Abbreviations and short titles

1. Introduction

Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen, Olav Hammer and David A. Warburton

PART I: PREHISTORIC RELIGIONS

2.

Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen and David A. Warburton

3. Prehistoric material and religion: a personal odyssey J ar I Nordbladh

4. Francesco d’Errico and the origins of religion David A. Warburton

5. On Palaeolithic religion

Emmanuel Anati

6. Ian Hodder and the Neolithic

Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen and David A. Warburton

7. Neolithic cult images? The testimony of figurines for Neolithic religion Jorg Petrasch

8. Religious practices in northern Europe 4000-2000 BCE Charlotte Damm

9. Mythological aspects of Nordic Bronze Age religion Flemming Kaul

10. Religion and society in the Bronze Age

Kristian Kristiansen

11. The religions of prehistoric Europe and the study of prehistoric religion Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen and David A. Warburton

PART II: ANCIENT EUROPE IN THE HISTORICAL PERIOD

12. Minoan and Mycenaean religion

David A. Warburton

13. Etruscan religion

Jean M. Turf a

14. The religions of the Iberian Peninsula

F. Marco Simon

15. Italic religion

Guy Bradley and Fay Glinister_________________________________

16. Roman religion

Susanne William Rasmussen

17. Ancient Greek religion

Lars Albinus

18. The Graeco-Roman cult of Isis

Birgitte Bogh

19. The cult of Mithras

Manfred Clauss

20. Religious Platonism: philosophy and religion in the Platonic tradition Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington

21. Insular Celtic religion

Karen Bek-Pedersen

22. Continental Germanic religion Rudolf Simek

23. Pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon religion

John D. Niles ____________________________________

24. Old Norse religion

Britt-Mari Nasstrom

25.

Leszek Slupecki______________________________________________

26. Baltic religion Sigma Ankrava

27. Religion in prehistoric Finland

Olàfs saga See F. Jonsson (ed.) 1911. Heimskringla. Noregs konungsògur. Helga Copenhagen.

Orvar-Odds See G. Jonsson (ed.) 1954. Fornaldar sògur Nordurlanda 1-4. saga Akureyri.

Primary Samuel Hazzard Cross & Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor (trans. & Chronicle ^ed^s) 1953. The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text.

Cambridge, MA. (Original text: I. F. Karskoy [ed.] 1926. Povest vremennykh let. In Lavrentevskaya Letopis, Polnoe Sobranie Russkikh Letopisey, vol.l, part 1. Leningrad.)

Rt Rigspula: see G. Jonsson (ed.) 1954. Eddukvaedi 1-2. Akureyri. Santuari G. Colonna (ed.) 1985. Santuari d’Etruria. Milan.

Saxo Saxo Grammaticus 1931. Saxonis Grammatici Gesta Danorum, Grammaticus vol. 1, J. OIrik & H. Raeder (eds). Hauniae. For a translation of (Saxo) this work, see P. Fischer (trans.), H. E. Davidson (ed.) 1979. Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes I-IX. Cambridge.

Siris V. Vidman 1969. Sylloge inscriptionum religionis Isiacae et Sarapiacae. Leiden.

Skskm Skaldskaparmàl: see Snorri Sturluson 2005. The Prose Edda, J. Byock (trans.). London.

SnE Snorri Sturluson 2005. The Prose Edda, J. Byock (trans.). London.

Sdgu Hàkonar See F. Jonsson (ed.) 1911. Heimskringla. Noregs konungsògur. godi Copenhagen.

Tarquinia A. M. Sgubini Moretti (ed.) 2001. Tarquinia Etrusca. Una nuova Etrusca storia. Rome.

Tarquinia: M. Bonghi Jovino & C. Chiaramente Trere 1987. Tarquinia. Ricerche Ricerche, Scavi e Prospettive. Milan.

Tarquinia: M. Bonghi Jovino & C. Chiaramente Trere (eds) 1997. Tarquinia. Testimonianze Testimonianze archeologiche e ricostruzione storica. Rome.

Prm frymskvida: see G. Jonsson (ed.) 1954. Eddukvaedi 1-2. Akureyri.

Vita J. Wikarjak & K. Liman (eds) 1966. Sancti Ottonis episcopi

Prieflingensis Babenbergensis Vita Prieflingensis (Monumenta Poloniae

Historica, NS.7.1). Warsaw.

Vm Vafprùdnismàl: see G. Jonsson (ed.) 1954. Eddukvaedi 1-2. Akureyri.

Vsp Vqluspà: see G. Jonsson (ed.) 1954. Eddukvaedi 1-2. Akureyri

Volsunga saga See G. Jonsson (ed.) 1954. Fornaldar sogur Nordurlanda 1. Akureyri.