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



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Autore: Bryan Eric Shane Visualizza persona
Titolo: Icelandic folklore : and the cultural memory of religious change / / by Eric Shane Bryan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , [2021]
©2021
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 pages) : digital file(s)
Disciplina: 398.2094912
Soggetto topico: Folklore - Iceland - History
Tales - Iceland - History and criticism
Reformation - Folklore
Christianity - Folklore
Tradition
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Soggetto geografico: Iceland Social life and customs
Island
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: Icelandic Reformation
Icelandic folktales
Old Norse Christianization
Scandinavian folklore
cultural memory
Note generali: Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter.
Nota di contenuto: ; 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Icelandic folklore  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9781641893763
1641893753
9781641894654
9781641893756
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996411335703316
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