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O grupo interinstitucional NEVE tem como principal objetivo o estudo e a divulgação da História e cultura da Escandinávia Medieval, em especial da Era Viking, por meio de reuniões, organização de eventos, publicações e divulgações em periódicos e internet. Parceiro do LOFOTR VIKING MUSEUM (Noruega); The Northern Women’s Art Collaborative (Universidade de Brown, EUA), ABHR e PPPGCR-UFPB. Religion has always been an important topic in Scandinavian Studies. Investigations involving Viking Age beliefs, gods, rituals and the Christianization process received considerable attention in research centers. The recent publication of The Pre-Christian Religions of the North (organized by Margaret Clunies Ross) brings up the complexity of the interpretation and reception that Old Nordic Religions received until nowadays. Concurrently, a lot of studies in Archaeology and material culture have been trying to reconstruct the everyday life of On the other hand, many researches realized that magic practices were intrinsic to the norse belief system and that the magical sphere was not always completely distinguishable from the religious one (Le Magiciens dan l’Islande ancienne, François-Xavier Dillmann). Others proposed that magic was a type of discourse used to challenge the political and social domains (Magic and Kingship in Medieval The different manners of representing the supernatural and the sacred permeated the literary and material space, either in the Icelandic Sagas, in the Eddas or in recently excavated temples. Thereby, we invite researchers to submit studies concerning the following topics: - Pre-Christian rituals, temples and sacred grounds in Scandinavia. - Christianization, conversion and the religious hybridity during the Middle Ages in Scandinavia. - Material culture of rites, magical formulas, enchantments, symbols - The representation and discourses on Pre-Christian Norse religion in literature, chronicles and visual arts.