Old Norse Folklore (eBook)

Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia

Stephen A. Mitchell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
360 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7347-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of this fascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and performance theory to memory studies, and myths relating to pre-Christian Nordic religion to innovations within late medieval pilgrimage song culture.

Old Norse Folklore provides critical new perspectives on the Old Norse world, some of which appear in this volume for the first time in English. Stephen A. Mitchell presents emerging methodologies by analyzing Old Norse materials to offer a better understandings ofunderstanding of Old Norse materials. He examines, interprets, and re-interprets the medieval data bequeathed to us by posterity—myths, legends, riddles, charms, court culture, conversion narratives, landscapes, and mindscapes—targeting largely overlooked, yet important sources of cultural insights.

Autor

Stephen A. Mitchell is the Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University. His research centers on the Nordic world in the medieval and early modern periods, and employs a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including performance theory, memory studies, anthropological linguistics, and other folklore-centered perspectives. He is author of Heroic Sagas and Ballads and Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages.

Inhalt

Introduction
Part 1: NORMS AND NOMENCLATURE
1. Heresy and Heterodoxy in Medieval Scandinavia
2. The Pactum cum Diabolo and Nordic Magic
3. The n-Rune and Nordic Charm Magic
4. Warlocks, Valkyries and Varlets: A Prolegomenon to the Study of North Sea Witchcraft Terminology
Part 2: PERFORMANCE AND PRESENTATION
5. For Scírnis and Nordic Charm Magic
6. Leechbooks, Manuals, and Grimoires: On the Early History of Magical Texts in Scandinavia
7. "An Evil Woman Is the Devil's Door Nail": Probing the Proverbial and Pictorial Patriarchate in Medieval Scandinavia
8. Magic in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Typology of Modes
Part 3: CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION
9. Notes on Historiolas, Referentiality, and Time in Nordic Magical Traditions
10. Óðinn, Magic, and a Swedish Trial from 1484
11. DgF 526 "Lokket med runer," Memory, and Magic
12. Spirituality and Alchemy in Den vises sten (1379)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Myth and Poetics II
• Reihe/Serie: Myth and Poetics II
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Nordic performance, memory, myth, conversion narrative, Odin and Magic, Gná and Hávamál, Trollmöte, Samsø
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-7347-X / 150177347X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-7347-1 / 9781501773471