Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change.
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 (so...
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| Superior document: | Borderlines Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Arc Humanities Press,, 2021. Ã2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Borderlines Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (172 pages) |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781641893763 9781641894654 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |