Papers by Wilhelm Heizmann
European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2021
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Gold in der europäischen Heldensage, 2019
The advance of the Roman Empire into Northern Europe introduced a large influx of material goods ... more The advance of the Roman Empire into Northern Europe introduced a large influx of material goods to the Germanic tribes, especially gold. At the same time, the encounter with the Roman world stimulated an intensive intellectual exploration of central ideas, manifestations and cultural techniques stemming from Mediterranean high culture, which were then adopted by the Germanic tribes according to their own needs and ideas as well as adapted to their own culture. The gold of the Roman emperors, melted down and reprocessed, forms the material basis of numerous golden prestige and cult objects, a metamorphosis that lingers in the literary tradition of the Germanic tribes. An example of this is the reception of the consular processional road (processus consularis) on gold coins of the Constantinian era when the emperor assumed office. He demonstrates his generosity by distributing money among the people. Indeed, we have not only two literary testimonies from the reign of Chlodovech and Chilperich in Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks: this coin image was also taken up in the north and imitated around the same time on the front of the Norwegian medallion imitation IK 256 from Godøy. Additionally, the myth of the Danish King Hrólfr kraki can be read as a literary echo to the tradition, who scatters the just stolen gold on the run from his Swedish pursuers. The Swedes eventually stop the persecution over their greed for gold. Here a wide curve seems to connect the gold-spreading of the Roman emperor as an expression of his liberalitas to the imitation of the Frankish King Chlodovech and Hrólfr kraki’s golden seed. At the same time, the Norwegian skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir (at the end of the 10th c.) makes an allusion in this context using the kenning fræ Fýrisvalla ‘seed of the Fýris field’ for ‘gold’ in an imaginary complex that associates gold with grain, thereby attributing vegetative properties to the precious metal.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Gold in der europäischen Heldensage, 2019
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Festschrift für Anders Hultgård zu seinem 65. Geburtstag am 23.12.2001
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Festschrift für Hans Schottmann
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Ergänzungsbände, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
... Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Herausgegeben von Heinrich Be... more ... Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Herausgegeben von Heinrich Beck, Heiko Steuer, Dieter Timpe Band 7 w DE G ... um Rafns Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda [Rafn 1829, 1829, 1830], Agnete Loths Ausgabe von Märchensagas [Loth 1962,1963 ...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Akten der Tagung in Eichstätt vom 20. bis 24. Juli 2003
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Gold in der europäischen Heldensage, 2019
The advance of the Roman Empire into Northern Europe introduced a large influx of material goods ... more The advance of the Roman Empire into Northern Europe introduced a large influx of material goods to the Germanic tribes, especially gold. At the same time, the encounter with the Roman world stimulated an intensive intellectual exploration of central ideas, manifestations and cultural techniques stemming from Mediterranean high culture, which were then adopted by the Germanic tribes according to their own needs and ideas as well as adapted to their own culture. The gold of the Roman emperors, melted down and reprocessed, forms the material basis of numerous golden prestige and cult objects, a metamorphosis that lingers in the literary tradition of the Germanic tribes. An example of this is the reception of the consular processional road (processus consularis) on gold coins of the Constantinian era when the emperor assumed office. He demonstrates his generosity by distributing money among the people. Indeed, we have not only two literary testimonies from the reign of Chlodovech and C...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
... Jahrhundert die Überschrift 'Eirn atburdur SVEINBJÖRN EGILSSON — RAFN &a... more ... Jahrhundert die Überschrift 'Eirn atburdur SVEINBJÖRN EGILSSON — RAFN >. GUDMUNDSSON — RASMUS RASK [Fornmanna sögur 3] Kaupman-nahofn 1827, S. 184). ... 97. 42 Vgl. GEOFFREY ASH, Art Glastonbury, in: The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, hg. ...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Alemannien und der Norden, 2003
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Zentrale Probleme bei der Erforschung der älteren Runen, 2010
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Frühmittelalterliche Studien 41, 2007
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
de Historia Urologiae Europaeae 16, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Uploads
Papers by Wilhelm Heizmann