RT Book
T1 Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
T2 Borderlines           
A1 Bryan, Eric Shane
LA English
PP Leeds
PB Arc Humanities Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1753548357
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
OP 168
CN GR215
SN 978-1-64189-376-3
K1 Christianity : Folklore
K1 Folklore : Iceland : History
K1 Reformation : Folklore
K1 Tales : Iceland : History and criticism
K1 LITERARY CRITICISM / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
K1 Icelandic Reformation
K1 Icelandic folktales
K1 Old Norse Christianization
K1 Scandinavian folklore
K1 cultural memory
DO 10.1515/9781641893763