Recently added articles from Scandinavian Studies:
A portal through time: Queen Gunhild.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ON OCTOBER 20, 1835, a mummified corpse of a woman was found in Haraldskjaer Bog in the eastern part of Denmark. The body was swollen and blackened by the peat water, the hair dyed red-brown from the ferruginous properties in the bog. In a forensic report by the district physician from ...
The dream women of Gisla saga.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... MODERN SCHOLARSHIP on Gisla saga Surssonar has devoted a considerable amount of discussion to the women of Gisli's dreams. The precise function and nature of these women, however, have been somewhat obfuscated by their dual representation, namely in verse and in prose. Despite striking ...
Olof Ahlstrom and popular music-making in eighteenth-century Sweden.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... IN THE HISTORY of Swedish music of the last twenty years or so of the Gustavian period--about 1789 to 1809--the figure of Olof Ahlstrom (1756-1835) is a constant, if shadowy, presence. His publication of Bellman's Fredmans epistlar (1790) and Fredmans sanger (1791) has ensured him a ...
The Danish Spinster and the English Rake? Isak Dinesen as the inimitable Lord Byron--a mythobiography.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Documents, both private and historical, have made it possible to fulfil the first duty of a biographer, which is to plod, without looking to right or left, in the indelible footprints of truth; unenticed by flowers; regardless of shade; on and on methodically till we fall plump into the ...
Per H. Hansen. Da danske mobler blev moderne: Historien om dansk mobeldesigns storhedstid.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Per H. Hansen. Da danske mobler blev moderne: Historien om dansk mobeldesigns storhedstid. Copenhagen and O dense: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag and Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2006. Pp. 64-4. In the world of industrial design, the fascination with all things mid-twentieth-century ...