


The University of Chicago Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago toward the publication of this book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lincoln, Bruce, author. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.īetween history and myth : stories of Harald Fairhair and the founding of the state / Bruce Lincoln. Harald Haarfagre, King of Norway, approximately 860–approximately 940.

If the state is able to exert symbolic violence, it is because it incarnates itself simultaneously in objectivity, in the form of specific organizational structures and mechanisms, and in subjectivity, in the form of mental structures and categories of perception and thought.

#The waste land myth and symbols in the great gatsby series#īy realizing itself in social structures and in the mental structures adapted to them, the instituted institution makes us forget that it issues out of a long series of acts of institution (in the active sense) and hence has all the appearances of the natural. Long-haired artists, poets, and visionaries 92įormation of the royal lines of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark 101ĭistribution of texts, authors, audiences, attitudes, and styles 108 Young Harald freeing the giant Dofri from his bonds 63ħ.2 ~ffect of Dofri’s aggressive fostering of Harald on dynastic succession 68 8.1 }istricts of southern Norway included in the realm of Hálfdan the Black 76 9.1 Genealogical information provided by Hálfdan the Black’s Saga 54 Relation of Guthorm to Harald Fairhair 42 Rögnvald’s sons and their life histories 28 pierre bourdieuġ Introduction 1 2 Gyða 8 3 Rögnvald the Powerful 19 4 Snorri Sturluson 32 5 Commander Guthorm 41 6 Ragnhild 51 7 Dofri the Giant 61 8 Hálfdan the Black 72 9 Shaggy Harald 80 10 Ingjald the Wicked 95 11 Conclusions 104 Coda: A Reader Reflects 121 Acknowledgments 125 Appendix: Synoptic Tables 127 Notes 205 Bibliography 265 Index 279 This is why there is no more potent tool for rupture than the reconstruction of genesis: by bringing back into view the conflicts and confrontations of the early beginnings and therefore all the discarded possibles, it retrieves the possibility that things could have been (and still could be) otherwise.
