Luke John Murphy's scientific contributions
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Publications (5)
In this chapter we survey and analyse evidence for processions and their possible functions in Viking Age Scandinavia. We propose two forms of processional movement, and examine forms of ritual transport and their likely venues. Although older studies of ‘procession’ as part of human ritual activity defined it as purely linear – that is, a ritual m...
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The infamous blood eagle ritual has long been controversial: did Viking Age Nordic people really torture one another to death by severing their ribs from their spine and removing their lungs, or is it all a misunderstanding of some complicated poetry? Previous scholarship on the topic has tended to focus on the details and reliability of extant med...
This is a selection of posters and presentations as well as introductions to the Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse and the meetings in Copenhagen in 2017 and Bergen in 2019.
No systematic survey of processions in pre-Christian Scandinavian religion has yet been attempted, in line with the lack of research on processions in the Study of Religion more generally. This article examines the written, archaeological, and iconographic material and applies Bernhard Lang’s typology of processions in order to describe the functio...
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... The game begins with Senua arriving on 49 A gruesome form of execution whereby an eagle is carved onto the victim, their ribs severed from their spine and their lungs pulled out to resemble wings. The practice's historicity is debated and is now taken largely to be later Christian exaggeration and misunderstanding (see Frank, 1984;Murphy et al., 2022). Nevertheless, the blood eagle holds a prominent place in the contemporary image of the Vikings, for example being depicted twice in the popular TV show Vikings (Skogland, 2014;Woolnough, 2017). ...
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... Perhaps one of the purposes of the paved street dating to the late 11 th century was to facilitate and guide religious processions (Haase 2019, 52-54). As in many cultures, ceremonial processions are also an old Nordic tradition, as illustrated in the Oseberg Tapestry (c.834) and the Gotland picture stones, and as described in Ibn Fadlan's accounts (Deckers et al. 2021, 50;Nygaard and Murphy 2017;Price 2022). Some of these processions are understood to have related to burials, as were Christian processions. ...
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