O’Brazile: The Short Textual Life of a Floating Island in Seventeenth-Century Scandinavian Book History - JÜRG GLAUSER High and Low in Leonora Christina Ulfeldt’s Jammers minde - PERNILLE HERMANN Pre-Reformation Church Murals in Post-Reformation Danish Churches - LOUISE NYHOLM KALLESTRUPĪ Female Job and a Witch. OGu vergildi and Välde in Etelhem, Gotland - STEFAN BRINK The ‘Asgard’ Superphylum and Lokiarcheaota: Mythic Relapse in Evolutionary Biology - KIMBERLEY C. ARNÓRSDÓTTIRĪssembling Memory: The Questionnaire of 1817 from Den kongelige Commission til Oldsagers Opbevaring and the Origins of Icelandic Romantic Nationalism - SHAUN F. History and Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Annals 1400–1800 - AGNES S. The Middle Ages in the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Norway - ARNE BUGGE AMUNDSEN Spatial and Temporal Formations of Trondheim as a Memory Place - LENA ROHRBACH Metaphors for Forgetting and Forgetting as Metaphor in Old Norse Poetics - KATE HESLOP DUBOISĪ Conspiracy of Witches - TIMOTHY R. Lessons in Magic: Making Use of Early Twentieth-Century Accounts of Magical Procedures in the Folklore Classroom - THOMAS A. ‘In the Name of the 7 fatherless devils…’: Pain, Fear, Anger and Revenge in Magical Practice - ANE OHRVIK A Unique Magical Ritual in Ljósvetninga saga - TERRY GUNNELL Trolls in the Mill: The Supernatural Stakes of Waterpower - MERRILL KAPLANĪ Prophylactic Pig, a Long-Lost Hunter, and the Recording of Oral Tradition - JOSEPH FALAKY NAGYĪ Male Cinderella and a Sea-Serpent’s Teeth: Scandinavian Echoes in an Orkney Folk-Tale - SARAH KÜNZLERĪxe on the Water. The Threat of Induced Desire in Skírnismál - RICHARD COLEĮnchantments, Spells, and Curses: The Sorcery of Stories and the Magic in Them - MARIA TATAR The Agency in Fǫr Scírnis - Subjects, Objects, and Différance. On Rereading Oddrúnargrátr - JOSEPH HARRIS ‘I remember giants’: Mythological Remembering through Vǫluspá - CAROLYNE LARRINGTON AND JUDY QUINN Jarl, Konr, and Óðinn in Rígsþula - JENS PETER SCHJØDT Same Place, Different Time: Temporal Aspects of Imagined Landscapes in Some Northern Contexts - JOHN LINDOW Mitchell, professor of Scandinavian Studies and Folklore at Harvard University, whose research has heavily influenced this multi-faceted field. Covering a range of related topics, from supernatural beings to the importance of mythology in later national historiographies, the chapters gathered here are written to honour the work of Stephen A. Taking the intersection between these diverse fields as its starting point, this volume draws together contributions from across a variety of disciplines to offer new insights into the importance of myth, magic, and memory in pre-modern Scandinavia.
Analytical approaches to myth (prominent in the fields of history of religion, archaeology, language, and literature, and central to studies of visual cultures up to modern times), magic (drawing on a wealth of Norse folkloric and supernatural material that derives from pre-modern times and continues to impact on recent practices of performance and ritual), and memory (the concept of how we remember and actively construe the past) together combine to shed light on how people perceived the world around them. Myth, magic, and memory have together formed important, and often intertwined, elements to recent studies in the narrative culture of Viking-Age and Medieval Scandinavica.
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