Icelandic folklore : and the cultural memory of religious change / by Eric Shane Bryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryan, Eric Shane, Author.

Series:

Borderlines Series

Borderlines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Iceland--History.

Folklore.

Tales--Iceland--History and criticism.

Tales.

Reformation--Folklore.

Reformation.

Christianity--Folklore.

Christianity.

Iceland--Social life and customs.

Iceland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages) digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Bryan Eric Shane : Eric Bryan is Assoc. Prof. of English at Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology. He has received grants from the Fulbright Program and American Scandinavian Foundation.

Summary:

Nearly all recent examinations of Icelandic (and Scandinavian) folklore from the nineteenth century and earlier have concerned themselves with the origins and production of folktales rather than with the cultural implications of their content. This volume extends those discussions by offering an interdisciplinary methodology that weaves together the literature, religious and political history, and other cultural phenomena that have impacted folk narratives as evidence of the emergent cultural memory of a society undergoing the religious developments of Christianization and Reformation. Iceland's uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the "re-oralization" of those narratives after the medieval period, create a body of folktales and legends that have encoded a hidden account of how orthodox and heterodox beliefs (sometimes pagan in origin) intermingled as Christianity, and later Reformation, spread through the North. This volume unlocks that secret story by placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social history, and Old Norse sagas and poetry. The analysis herein reveals a cultural memory of belief.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Stories, Memories, and Mechanisms of Belief

The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off His Bride: Pejoration and Adjacency Pairs in ATU 365

The Elf Woman's Conversion: Memories of Gender and Gender Spheres

The Fylgjur of Iceland: Attendant Spirits and a Distorted Sense of Guardianship

The Elf Church: Memories of Contested Sacred Spaces

The Stupid Boy and the Devil: Sæmundur Fróði Sigfússon, Magic, and Redemption

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781641893763

1641893753

9781641894654

OCLC:

1240574219