At the Borders of the Wondrous and Magical

Foreword: Claude Lecouteux, A Ferryman Who
Smuggles History through Stories
Florence Bayard and Astrid Guillaume

Introduction
Florence Bayard and Astrid Guillaume

PART I

FROM DOCUMENT TO IDEA

Making Texts Speak

1 The Ramsund Stone
The Mindset behind the Runic Inscription

2 Eyrbyggja Saga
The Saga of Snorri Go?i

3 The Hidden Face of Tales and Legends

4 Fantasy and the Middle Ages

PART I I

BETWEEN MAGIC AND DIABLERIE

Ambiguous Objects and Beings

5 A Typology of Several Kinds of Evil Dead

6 Grimoires and Their Ancestors

7 Big Bells and Little Bells
Beliefs and Magic

8 Weyland the Smith

PART I I I

NATURE AND THE ELEMENTS

Between Awe and Terror

9 The Magnetic Mountain

10 The Raft of the Winds
Toward a Mythology of Clouds in the Middle Ages

11 The Masters of Weather
Tempestarii, Coercers, Defenders, and Others

12 Mythical Aspects of the Mountain in the Middle Ages

PART I V

BORDERS AT THE MARGINS
OF THE KNOWN WORLD

13 The Sea and Its Isles during the Middle Ages
A Journey into the Marvelous

14 The Backdrop of the Adventure Sites in
Medieval Romances

15 The Taming of the Land
Reflections on Human Beings and Their Environment

16 Borderlands of the Otherworld

17 The Spirits of Nature and of Humans in
the Middle Ages
Aspects of Their Relationship

Notes

Index

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• Magia, misticismo e ritual
• Feitiçaria e religiões pagãs
• Fenómemos paranormais
• História da Europa
• Feitiçaria
• História Antiga: c 500 a c 1450/1500
• História Medieval

NATURE SPIRITS AND SHAPESHIFTERS;MEDIEVAL MYTHS AND MAGIC;HAUNTED PLACES AND POWER PLACES;WITCHES AND UNDEAD IN MIDDLE AGES;RUNE PRIESTS AND GRIMOIRES;STORM CALLERS AND WEATHER MAGIC;MAGICAL OBJECTS AND CHARACTERS;VAMPIRES AND LIMINAL THRESHOLDS;CLAUD LECOUTEUX MEDIEVAL STUDIES;SORBONNE SCHOLAR ON MAGIC;BORDERLANDS OF THE WONDROUS