@inbook{47f7612ab8844c02a547824ac801ac17,
title = "{\TH}{\'o}rr and wading",
abstract = "Crossing rivers and boggy ground would have presented a number of dangers to early Scandinavians. There is a good deal of mythological evidence that {\TH}{\'o}rr is associated with the challenges of travelling by sea, as well as on various kinds of watery situations on land, such as rivers, lakes and bogs. There is literary evidence for the invocation of {\TH}{\'o}rr in seafaring, and this paper hypothesises that {\TH}{\'o}rr was invoked in related activities of crossing rivers and wet ground. The paper demonstrates a strong geographical relationship between {\TH}{\'o}rr-worship (as shown by settlement place-names) and crossing rivers and marshes (as shown by runic inscriptions commemorating bridges and fords), and attempts an explanation of this relationship in terms of the mythological evidence.",
author = "Wills, {Tarrin Jon}",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1515/9783110548136-029",
language = "English",
volume = "101",
series = "Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergaenzungsbaende",
publisher = "De Gruyter",
pages = "411--428",
booktitle = "Die Faszination des Verborgenen und seine Entschl{\"u}sselung – Rā{\d}i saʀ kunni",
address = "Germany",
}