Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change |
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Author:
| Bryan, Eric Shane |
Series title: | Borderlines Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-64189-376-3 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2021 |
Publisher: | Arc Humanities Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | Free of charge contact
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Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIceland'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.