Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe / / edited by Terry Gunnell.

• Superior document: National Cultivation of Culture ; 30
• TeilnehmendeR: Gunnell, Terry,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: National Cultivation of Culture ; 30.; Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (609 pages)

"This book sheds new light on the central role of the Grimms' all too often neglected Deutsche Sagen (German Legends), published in 1816-1818 as a follow-up to their famous collection of fairy tales. As the chapters in this book demonstrate, Deutsche Sagen, with its firmly nationalistic title, set in motion a cultural tsunami of folklore collection throughout Northern Europe, from Ireland and Estonia, which focused initially on the collection of folk legends rather than fairy tales. Grimm Ripples focuses on the initial northward wave of collection between 1816 and 1870, and the letters, introductions and reviews associated with these collections which effectively demonstrate how those involved understood what was being collected. This approach offers important new insights into the key role played by Folkloristics in the Romantic Nationalistic movement of the early nineteenth century. Contributors are: Terry Gunnell, Joep Leerssen, Holger Ehrhardt, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Herleik Baklid, Ane Ohrvik, Line Esborg, Fredrik Skott, John Lindow, Éilís Ní Dhiubhne Almqvist, John Shaw, Jonathan Roper, Kim Simonsen, Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, Liina Lukas, Pertti Antonnen, Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, and Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Terry Gunnell -- Topo-narratives / Joep Leerssen -- The Grimm Brothers' Deutsche Sagen : collection plan, sources, critiques, reception / Holger Ehrhardt -- The accidental folklorist : Thiele's collection of Danish folk legends in early nineteenth-century Denmark / Timothy R. Tangherlini -- "You can therefore rightly see these folk legends as a reflection of your own!" : the Grimm Brothers and the Norwegian collector of folk legends, Andreas Faye / Herleik Baklid -- Mapping the knowledge network of the Norwegian folklore collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in the nineteenth century / Ane Ohrvik -- Treue und Wahrheit : Asbjørnsen and Moe and the scientification of folklore in Norway / Line Esborg -- Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius and the Svenska Sägner that never appeared / Terry Gunnell and Fredrik Skott -- George Stephens : an unlikely conduit / John Lindow -- Pioneers : Thomas Crofton Croker and the Brothers Grimm / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Almqvist -- The Grimms, Scotland and "this new science of 'storyology'" / John Shaw -- Considered trifles : English Grimmians / Jonathan Roper -- The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries and V.U. Hammershaimb's collections of Faroese folk legends / Kim Simonsen -- Konrad Maurer : cultural conduit and collector / Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir -- Jón Árnason and the collection of Icelandic folk legends : ripples, flotsam, nets and reflections / Terry Gunnell -- The Grimms and folklore collection in Estonia in the mid-nineteenth century / Liina Lukas -- The Grimm Brothers and the quest for legends in nineteenth-century Finnish folklore studies / Pertti Anttonen -- Oskar Rancken, Swedish-language folklore collection in Finland and the Grimm ripples / Ulrika Wolf-Knuts and Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch.