Northern myths, modern identities : : the nationalisation of northern mythologies since 1800 /

Northern myths, modern identities : : the nationalisation of northern mythologies since 1800 / / edited by Simon Halink.

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This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities , explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employe...

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Halink, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:National Cultivation of Culture 19.
Physical Description:1 online resource (273 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Figures and Tables
  • About the Authors
  • Northern Myths, Modern Identities: An Introduction / Simon Halink
  • Imagining the North
  • The North: A Cultural Stereotype between Metaphor and Racial Essentialism / Joep Leerssen
  • Within or Outside Europe? Modernists and Anti-modernists Visiting Iceland in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson
  • Is Nordic Mythology Nordic or National, or Both? Competing National Appropriations of Nordic Mythology in Early Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia / Tim van Gerven
  • Ancient Heritage, New Meaning
  • Norse Myths, Nordic Identities: The Divergent Case of Icelandic Romanticism / Gylfi Gunnlaugsson
  • Redbad, the Once and Future King of the Frisians / Han Nijdam and Otto S. Knottnerus
  • Norse Mythology in Icelandic Fiction about the Second World War / Daisy Neijmann
  • Of Gods and Men: Uses and Abuses of Neo-Paganism by Nationalist Movements in the “North” / Robert A. Saunders
  • Travelling Ideas and Artistic Expressions
  • Heirs of Lönnrot: From Longfellow to Tolkien / Tom Shippey
  • Kalevala in International Masks: A Japanese Aino and Kalevala dell’Arte / Kendra Willson
  • The Quest of Gangleri: Theosophy and Old Norse Mythology in Iceland / Simon Halink
  • Beyond the Nation?
  • Crossing the Borders: Loki and the Decline of the Nation State / Katja Schulz
  • Apocalypse Now: Norse Gods and the End of the Nation / Carline Tromp
  • Back Matter
  • Index of Names and Subjects.

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