Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change

Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change by Eric Shane Bryan.

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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Main Author: Bryan, Eric Shane (Author, Verfasser.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leeds Arc Humanities Press [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tradition
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Island
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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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