Between heathens and Christians, betweeen this World and the Other one, between Punishment and Salvation: the Old Norse Poems Draumkvæði and Sólarljóð

Abstract

The paper describes two Old Norse early Christian visionary poems, Draumkvæði und Sólarljóð, and discusses some principial differences between Christian and heathen concepts of death and afterlife.

Keywords

• Death
• Afterlife
• Old Norse Literature
• Christianity
• Old Norse Religion