Lars Magnar Enoksen

Lars Magnar Enoksen (born 1960 in Malmö) is a Swedish writer and Glima ^{[citation needed]} wrestler.

Enoksen was born in Malmö in 1960 to a Swedish mother and Norwegian father.^{[citation needed]} 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.

Bibliography

• Ärans blod 1988
• Starkaters sista nidingsdåd 1989
• Nattens drottning (1994)
• Lilla runboken (1995)
• Runor (1998)
• Skånska runstenar (1999)
• Fornnordisk mytologi enligt Eddans lärdomsdikter (2000)
• Odens korpar (2001)
• Skånska fornminnen (2001)
• Vikingarnas egna ord (2003)
• Vikingarnas stridskonst (2004)
• Gudar och gudinnor i Norden (2005)
• Djur och natur i fornnordisk mytologi (2006)
• Lilla boken om runor (2008)
• The secret art of Glima - an introduction to Viking martial arts (2008)
• Stora boken om Vikingarnas gudar och myter (2008)
• The History of Runic Lore (2011)
• Runor: Mästarens handbok. Lund: Historiska media, (2015). ISBN 978-91-7545-317-0

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