The Semiotics of Fate, Death, and the Soul in Germanic Culture: The Christianization of Old Saxon

by Prisca Augustyn

The ninth-century Old Saxon Heliand gospel yields seminal sets of words for fate and the self that paint the cultural background into which Christianity was introduced. The Heliand contains robust mythopoetic links to an Indo-European tradition, which were conducive to the synthesis of ancient mythological scenarios with the dogma of the immortal soul. Peirce's semiotic informs the linguistic analysis and promotes the ethnophilosophical description...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820452777
• ISBN13: 9780820452777
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 200 Pages