| Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change Contributor(s): Bryan, Eric Shane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1641893753 ISBN-13: 9781641893756 Publisher: ARC Humanities Press OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Physical Information: 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
