Lars Magnar Enoksen Explained

Lars Magnar Enoksen (born 1960 in Malmö) is a Swedish writer and Glima wrestler.

Enoksen was born in Malmö in 1960 to a Swedish mother and Norwegian father. As an author, he has written extensively on runes and Nordic mythology,[1] although as a popular rather than academic writer.His work has received very varied reviews and critique from academics and experts in Old Norse studies and runology; while Runor: Historia, tydning, tolkning (~Runes:History, deciphering, interpretation) is described by Professor Henrik Williams [2] as the best introduction to runology written in Swedish,[3] later works like Runor: Mästarens handbok (~Runes, the Master's handbook) was reviewed by Williams as riddled with mistakes and errors that range from simplifications to the directly misleading.[4]

Lars_Lönnroth claims the books Djur och natur i fornnordisk mytologi (~Animals and nature in Norse mythology) and Vikingarnas egna ord (In the Viking's own words), while certainly presenting fascinating myths and traditions on the way to be forgotten in a vivid and enthusiastic manner, are written entirely without insight of the modern research in the field as well as a lack of source criticism [5] and national romantic thinking derived from the 1900s.[6] Stefanie von Schnurbein wrote of Norrøne guder og myter[7] (2008) that: "we can find all the methodologically and historically problematic assumptions that had already vexed Germanophile scholarship in the 1930s and earlier, as well as feminist spirituality later on: The questionable idea that myth mirrors social structures, a lack of source criticism, unsupportable theories of continuity between pre-historic past and present society, not to mention the unfounded claims about the superiority of goddesses in the Norse pantheon."[8]

In 2000, he was awarded the Lengertz Literature Award (Lengertz litteraturpris),[9] which is awarded to authors who write on subjects relevant to Scania.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lars Magnar Enoksen . . 3 June 2019.
  2. Web site: Henrik Williams - Uppsala University, Sweden . Åke . Johansson . katalog.uu.se . 3 June 2019.
  3. Web site: Henrik Williams - Uppsala University, Sweden . Åke . Johansson . katalog.uu.se . 3 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201128233047/http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A51945&dswid=-9756. 28 November 2020 .
  4. Review of Lars Magnar Enoksen. 'Runor: Mästarens handbok'. Lund: Historiska media, 2015. 220 pp. ISBN 978-91-7545-317-0 . Williams . Henrik . 2016 . Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies . 6 . 187–192. 1892-0950 .
  5. News: Enoksen hugger i sten när han tolkar vikingarnas runinskrifter . Lars . Lönnroth . 26 May 2003 . . sv . 3 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161129024216/https://www.svd.se/enoksen-hugger-i-sten-nar-han-tolkar-vikingarnas-runinskrifter. 29 November 2016.
  6. News: Naturmyter presenterade utan källkritik . Lars . Lönnroth . 12 June 2006 . Svenska Dagbladet . sv . 3 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161129022856/https://www.svd.se/naturmyter-presenterade-utan-kallkritik. 29 November 2016.
  7. Book: Enoksen, Lars Magnar. Norrøne guder og myter. 2008. Schibsted. 978-82-516-2515-9. Oslo. 552959907.
  8. Book: Schnurbein, Stefanie v.. Norse revival : transformations of Germanic neopaganism. 2016. 978-90-04-30951-7. Boston. 929864180.
  9. Web site: Lengertz litteraturpris 1967– . 28 May 2008 . Skaneshembygdsforbund . sv . 16 June 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100818000527/http://www.skaneshembygdsforbund.se/omshf/lengertz_litteratur.html . 18 August 2010.

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