Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
Bryan, Eric Shane
ISBN 10: 1641894652 ISBN 13: 9781641894654
Published by Arc Humanities Press, 2021
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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. This book is available as Open Access.
About the Author: Eric Bryan is Assoc. Prof. of English at Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology. He has received grants from the Fulbright Program and American Scandinavian Foundation.
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Title: Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory ...
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New