Icelandic folklore and the cultural memory of religious change /

Icelandic folklore and the cultural memory of religious change / / Eric Shane Bryan.

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"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...

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Superior document:Borderlines (Leeds, England)
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Bryan, Eric Shane,
Place / Publishing House:Leeds, [UK] : : Arc Humanities Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Borderlines (Leeds, England)
Physical Description:1 online resource (162 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Stories, memories, and mechanisms of belief
  • The dead bridegroom carries off his bride: pejoration and adjacency pairs in ATU 365
  • The elf woman's conversion: memories of gender and gender spheres
  • The Fylgjur of Iceland: attendant spirits and a distorted sense of guardianship
  • The elf church: memories of contested sacred spaces
  • The stupid boy and the devil: Sæmundur fróđi Sigfússon, magic, and redemption.

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