TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryan, Eric Shane
AB  - This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in  Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic  folktales collected in Iceland during the nineteenth century. Each of these five stories  has a story of its own: a historical and cultural context, a literary legacy, influences from  beliefs of all kinds (orthodox and heterodox, elite or lay), and modalities (oral or written)  by which the story was told. These factors leave an imprint— sometimes discernable,  sometimes not— upon the story, and when that imprint is readable, the legacies and  influences upon these stories come alive to illuminate a tapestry of cultural memory  (that is, a society’s perception of itself, its past, and its prospects for the future) and  cultural development that might otherwise be hidden from the reader’s eyes. So much is  the aim of this book: to tell the story of five great stories.
DO  - 10.17302/BL-9781641893763
KW  - Icelandic folktales; Scandinavian folklore; Old Norse Christianization; Icelandic Reformation; cultural memory
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5f582b4f-3052-4520-b032-7fdd3113c222/9781641893763.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46602
PB  - Arc Humanities Press
PY  - 2021
TI  - Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Changenull
ER  - 
