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Myth, magic, and memory in early Scandinavian narrative culture : studies in honour of Stephen A. Mitchell / edited by Juürg Glauser and Pernille Hermann ; in collaboration with Stefan Brink and Joseph Harris ; and with the editorial assistance of Sarah Künzler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Acta Scandinavica ; v. 11.
- Acta Scandinavica, Cambridge studies in the early Scandinavian world ; volume 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
- Scandinavian literature.
- Mythology, Norse--History.
- Mythology, Norse.
- Magic--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Magic.
- Collective memory--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Collective memory.
- Magic in literature.
- Collective memory and literature--Scandinavia.
- Collective memory and literature.
- History.
- Scandinavia.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 451 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]
- Summary:
- In this volume, several neighbouring disciplines, such as memory studies, literature, folklore studies, history of religion, medieval history, archaeology, oral history, and Old Norse studies intersect. The articles deal with similar questions and present illustrative case studies. Old Norse poems are analysed with regard to their mythological content; folktales, folklore, and other cultural phenomena are discussed with special foci on remembrance of the supernatural, witches, trolls, and others. One of the recurring questions is how we remember the past and how the past is created in memory. Myth, magic, and memory have together formed important, and often intertwined, elements to recent studies in the narrative culture of Viking-Age and Medieval Scandinavica. Analytical approaches to myth (prominent in the fields of history of religion, archaeology, language, and literature, and central to studies of visual cultures up to modern times), magic (drawing on a wealth of Norse folkloric and supernatural material that derives from pre-modern times and continues to impact on recent practices of performance and ritual), and memory (the concept of how we remember and actively construe the past) together combine to shed light on how people perceived the world around them. Taking the intersection between these diverse fields as its starting point, this volume draws together contributions from across a variety of disciplines to offer new insights into the importance of myth, magic, and memory in pre-modern Scandinavia. Covering a range of related topics, from supernatural beings to the importance of mythology in later national historiographies, the chapters gathered here are written to honour the work of Stephen A. Mitchell, professor of Scandinavian Studies and Folklore at Harvard University, whose research has heavily influenced this multi-faceted field. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Myth and Legend
- Same Place, Different Time: Temporal Aspects of Imagined Landscapes in Some Northern Contexts / John Lindow
- Jarl, Konr, and Odinn in Rigspula / Jens Peter Schjødt
- `I remember giants': Mythological Remembering through Voluspa / Judy Quinn
- On Rereading Oddrunargratr / Joseph Harris
- The Agency in For Scirnis
- - Subjects, Objects, and Differance: A Subversive Reading / Lukas Rosli
- The Threat of Induced Desire in Skirnismal / Richard Cole
- pt. II Magic and Folklore
- Enchantments, Spells, and Curses: The Sorcery of Stories and the Magic in Them / Maria Tatar
- Trolls in the Mill: The Supernatural Stakes of Waterpower / Merrill Kaplan
- A Prophylactic Pig, a Long-Lost Hunter, and the Recording of Oral Tradition / Joseph Falaky Nagy
- A Male Cinderella and a Sea Serpent's Teeth: Scandinavian Echoes in an Orkney Folk-Tale / Sarah Kunzler
- Axe on the Water: A Unique Magical Ritual in Ljosvetninga saga / Terry Gunnell
- `In the Name of the 7 fatherless devils...': Pain, Fear, Anger, and Revenge in Magical Practice / Ane Ohrvik
- Lessons in Magic: Making Use of Early Twentieth-Century Accounts of Magical Procedures in the Folklore Classroom / Thomas A. DuBois
- A Conspiracy of Witches / Timothy R. Tangherlini
- pt. III Memory and Reception
- Metaphors for Forgetting and Forgetting as Metaphor in Old Norse Poetics / Kate Heslop
- Olavifications: Spatial and Temporal Formations of Trondheim as a Memory Place / Lena Rohrbach
- The Middle Ages in the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Norway / Arne Bugge Amundsen
- History and Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Annals 1400
- 1800 / Agnes S. Arnorsdottir
- Assembling Memory: The Questionnaire of 1817 from Den kongelige Commission til Oldsagers Opbevaring and the Origins of Icelandic Romantic Nationalism / Shaun F. D. Hughes
- The Asgard' Superphylum and Lokiarchaeota: Mythic Relapse in Evolutionary Biology / Kimberley C. Patton
- pt. IV Influence and Interaction
- OGu vergildi and Valde in Etelhem, Gotland / Stefan Brink
- The Judensau in Uppsala / Anders Andren
- The Devil Is Awake: Pre-Reformation Church Murals in Post-Reformation Danish Churches / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
- A Female Job and a Witch: High and Low in Leonora Christina Ulfeldt's Jammers minde / Pernille Hermann
- O'Brazile: The Short Textual Life of a Floating Island in Seventeenth-Century Scandinavian Book History / Jurg Glauser
- Geijer och Eddornas `sinnebildssprak' / Lars Lonnroth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9782503589879
- 2503589871
- OCLC:
- 1255691763
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