Saintly heroes - Heroic saints. Interdependences, interrelations and transformations of codes of behaviour and role models during the Scandinavian Early and High Middle Ages

该项目使用斯堪的纳维亚早期和中世纪晚期的圣徒传记文本，研究圣人和英雄的语义和表现形式是如何相互关联的。与以前的研究方法不同，该项目不是植根于异教徒和基督教分别在教士和教士领域的对比。在中世纪早期和中世纪晚期，“英雄”和“圣人”这两个概念被结合在一起，因此不需要在不同文化之间进行补偿，目前的研究人员认为这两种文化是对立的。这对欧洲文化产生了持久的影响。

The project examines how the semantics and forms of expression of saints and heroes are interlocked, using hagiographic texts of the Scandinavian Early and High Middle Ages. In contrast to previous research approaches, the project does not root in the contrast of pagan and Christian respectively lay and clerical spheres. During the Early and High Middle Ages both concepts of "hero" and "saint" were wedded to each other so that no compensation between the cultures, which current researchers understand as being opposed, were needed. This had lasting effects on European culture.