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Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
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- Borderlines
- Publisher:
- 2021
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2021
- Copyright Year
- 2021
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-64189-375-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-64189-376-3
- Publisher
- Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
- Series
- Borderlines
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 172
- Product Type
- Monograph
Table of contents
ChapterPages
- 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”
- ConclusionPages 141 - 148 Download chapter (PDF)
- Select BibliographyPages 149 - 154 Download chapter (PDF)
- IndexPages 155 - 162 Download chapter (PDF)
