Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change /

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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 int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bryan, Eric Shane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2021]
Colección:Borderlines
Temas:
Christianity > Folklore.
Folklore > Iceland > History.
Reformation > Folklore.
Tales > Iceland > History and criticism.
Folklore > Islande > Histoire.
Contes > Islande > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
Christianity
Folklore
Reformation
Tales
Tradition
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Iceland
Island
Icelandic Reformation.
Icelandic folktales.
Old Norse Christianization.
Scandinavian folklore.
cultural memory.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Stories, Memories, and Mechanisms of Belief
  • Chapter 1. The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off His Bride: Pejoration and Adjacency Pairs in ATU 365
  • Chapter 2. The Elf Woman's Conversion: Memories of Gender and Gender Spheres
  • Chapter 3. The Fylgjur of Iceland: Attendant Spirits and a Distorted Sense of Guardianship
  • Chapter 4. The Elf Church: Memories of Contested Sacred Spaces
  • Chapter 5. The Stupid Boy and the Devil: Sæmundur Fróði Sigfússon, Magic, and Redemption
  • Conclusion
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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