The peoples who inhabited the worlds discussed in these two books, either in reality or within our imaginations, are at once slippery and certain. We may believe we have a grip on what the Norse/Viking worlds were about, only to have new evidence or a new approach to existing data challenge our views. These two books, The Norse myths that shape the way we think and The Norse sorceress: mind and materiality in the Viking world, explore the ways in which medieval northerners understood and interacted with the sublime, the divine, the non-human within their worlds and, in turn, how these interactions shape our own imaginations.

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“Vituð ér enn-eða hvat？”你想知道还是什么？了解中世纪斯堪的纳维亚人与神的关系

居住在这两本书中讨论的世界中的人们，无论是在现实中还是在我们的想象中，都是既狡猾又确定的。我们可能相信我们已经掌握了挪威/维京世界的内容，但新的证据或现有数据的新方法却挑战了我们的观点。这两本书， 《塑造我们思维方式的北欧神话》和《北欧女巫：维京世界中的心灵和物质性》 ，探讨了中世纪北方人如何理解他们世界中的崇高、神圣和非人类并与之互动。反过来，这些相互作用如何塑造我们自己的想象力。