Dr Matthias Egeler

Contact Information

St Catharine’s College
Cambridge CB21RL
Email: mce27@cam.ac.uk

Selected Publications

Monograph:

  • Celtic Influences in Germanic Religion. A Survey. (=Münchner Nordistische Studien 15), München: Utz Verlag 2013.
  • Walküren, Bodbs, Sirenen. Gedanken zur religionsgeschichtlichen Anbindung Nordwesteuropas an den mediterranen Raum. (=Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 71), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter 2011.

Articles:

  • “Some Thoughts on ‘Goddess Medb’ and her Typological Context,” in: Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 59 (2012), pp. 67-96.
  • “Some Remarks on the Mythological Interpretation of Female Charioteers on Armorican Coinage,” in: Studi Celtici 9 (2011-2012), pp. 205-244.
  • “A note on the dedication lamiis tribus (RIB 1331) as represented on the Seal of the Society,” in: Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series 39 (2010), pp. 15-23.
  • „Keltisch-mediterrane Perspektiven auf die altnordischen Walkürenvorstellungen,“ in: Wilhelm Heizmann; Klaus Böldl; Heinrich Beck (Hrsg.): Analecta Septentrionalia. Beiträge zur nordgermanischen Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte. (=Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 65), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter 2009, pp. 393-466.
  • “Textual Perspectives on Prehistoric Contacts: Some Considerations on Female Death Demons, Heroic Ideologies and the Notion of Elite Travel in European Prehistory,” in: Journal of Indo-European Studies 37 (2009), pp. 321-349.
  • “Condercum: Some Considerations on the Religious Life of a Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall and the Celtic Character of the lamiae tres of the Dedication Stone CIL VII, 507,” in: Studi Celtici 7 (2008-2009), pp. 129-176.
  • “Death, Wings, and Divine Devouring: Possible Mediterranean Affinities of Irish Battlefield Demons and Norse Valkyries,” in: Studia Celtica Fennica 5 (2008), pp. 5-25.