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Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
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- Borderlines
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- 2021
Zusammenfassung
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.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Auflage
- 1/2021
- Copyrightjahr
- 2021
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-64189-375-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-64189-376-3
- Verlag
- Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
- Reihe
- Borderlines
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 172
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledments
- Cultural Memory and the Development of Belief
- Cultural Memory in Iceland and Abroad
- Reformation and Lutheranization: Some Context
- Lutheranization and Icelandic Folk Stories
- Final Thoughts
- “Djákninn á Myrká” (The Deacon of Myrká)
- ATU 365 and Connections to Old Norse Literature
- The Pejoration of ATU 365
- A Theological and Historical Context
- Adjacency Pairs for “Djákninn á Myrká”
- Adjacency Pairs in the Bear’s Son Tales
- Final Thoughts: The Deacon of Myrká and the Legacy of Storytelling
- “Álfkonan hjá Ullarvötnum” (The Elf Woman at Ullarvötn)
- Gender Spheres in Old Norse Sources
- Gender Spheres in Post-Medieval Folk Narratives
- The Cultural Memory of Auður hin djúpuðga
- Cases of Witchcraft, Male or Female?
- Gender Spheres and the Elf Woman’s Conversion
- Final Thoughts: The Elf Woman’s Conversion
- The Móri of Sel (or Þorgarður)
- Origins and the Muddling of the Fylgja Group
- Pejoration and Attendant Spirits in Old Norse Sources
- Inheritance (Genealogically and Geographically) of Attendant Spirits
- Fylgjur as Souls (Aðsókn or Hugr)
- Pejorated Assistance
- Retribution and Punishment
- Final Thoughts: Þorgarður, Pejoration, and Angry (Pagan) Spirits
- Tungustapi
- Early Memories of Contested Spaces
- Foundations of Sacred Spaces
- Contested Spaces and the Reformation
- The Cosmic War and the End of Loftur Þorsteinsson
- “Galdra-Loftur,” “Tungustapi,” and the Inward Turn
- Final Thoughts: Church Moving and the Elf Church at Tungustapi
- “Tornæmi Drengurinn og Kölski” (The Stupid Boy and the Devil)
- The Folk Legacy of Sæmundur fróði
- Ministration and the Post-Medieval Sæmundur Stories
- Sæmundur’s Death and Accountability
- Final Thoughts: The Legacy of Sæmundur fróði and “The Stupid Boy and the Devil”
- ConclusionSeiten 141 - 148 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- Select BibliographySeiten 149 - 154 Download Kapitel (PDF)
- IndexSeiten 155 - 162 Download Kapitel (PDF)
