Scandinavian Studies back issues from September 2001:
What do you expect? An introduction.(folklore and storytelling criticism)
Sep 22, 2001; ... IN THE SPRING OF 2000, Scandinavianists congregated as usual for the annual SASS conference, which that year was held in Madison, Wisconsin. For a decade-and-a-half, the folklorists within SASS have met more or less formally prior to the SASS conference to share their interests, and, as a ...
On narrative expectations: Greenlandic oral traditions about the cultural encounter between Inuit and Norsemen.
Sep 22, 2001; ... AMONG ARCHEOLOGISTS as well as Eskimologists, the Greenlandic stories about cultural contact and hostilities between Inuit and Norsemen have long been disputed. Today no one believes that Inuit attacks on the Norsemen were the sole reason for the disappearance of both the Western ...
The point of quiesence.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2001; ... ONE OF THE BUGBEARS of folk narrative study is the question of the structure of the ordinary magic folk-tale, often loosely (and in a number of instances quite incorrectly) defined as the AT tales 300-749. We are yet a long way from solving this structural problem, and the energetic ...
Narrative expectations and domestic space in the telemark ballads.
Sep 22, 2001; ... EVER since William Motherwell first attempted to define the "traditionary" ballad, scholars have regarded convention and patterning as essential features of classical ballad style (1827: xi-xii and xxii-xxiv). Motherwell even recognized (following Robert Jamieson) that such stylistic ...
"Det kommo tvanne dufvor ... ": Doves, Ravens, and the dead in Scandinavian folk tradition.
Sep 22, 2001; ... IT IS PROBABLY safe to say that most admirers of Scandinavian folk ballads are familiar with the final stanzas of the most widely known variants of "Liten Karin" (1) The following are the final two stanzas of a variant performed in Landaryd parish, Ostergotland, between 1810 and 1813 by ...
Creating Jewish identity through storytelling: the tragedy of Jacob Bendixen.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2001; ... Because storytelling is practiced mainly in the family and synagogue, it too has become a perpetuator of ethnic and family identity. --Tamar Alexander THe SYMBIOTIC relationship between folklore and literature continues to be of interest for both folklorists and ...
Narratives of magic and healing: Oldtidens Sortebog in Norway and the New Land.
Sep 22, 2001; ... LEGENDS OF the magical Black Book abound in Norwegian folklore and, as recently as the 1920s, circulated among Norwegian Americans as well. Though no longer in the cultural mainstream, these books once attracted considerable intellectual attention. (1) Henrik Wergeland likely consulted ...
Multiform and life cycle: an Armenian and a Scandinavian narrative.
Sep 22, 2001; ... INTRODUCTION WHEN APPROACHING The Volsunga Saga and Daredevils of Sassoun, the reader is struck by the similarities between these two heroic tales from two very different cultures. Assuming that one culture has not borrowed heroic tales from the other, the question of just how ...
Norse mythology and the lives of the saints.
Sep 22, 2001; ... ONE OF THE IRONIES of the study of Scandinavian mythology is that the texts that comprise the object of such study owe their existence to the technology of writing on parchment, which was brought by the Church and institutionalized after the conversion of Iceland to Christianity. This ...
Narrative expectations and the Sampo song.
Sep 22, 2001; ... THE NOTION OF "narrative expectations" presents interesting challenges and implications for the student of traditional song. any of the modern scholar's initial assumptions regarding the complex relation between narrative expectation and narrative experience are predicated on the example ...
The discovery of Finnish American folk music.
Sep 22, 2001; ... BETWEEN 1880 and the onset of World War I, more than 300,000 Finns emigrated to the United States variously fleeing evictions from peasant homelands, a population surplus, unemployment, class strictures, a domineering state church, and the political oppression of Swedes to the west and ...
A concluding note.
Sep 22, 2001; ... IN AN EFFORT TO accommodate revised and expanded versions of all the papers presented at the folklore symposium on narrative expectations held in conjunction with the annual sass conference at the University of Wisconsin in May 2000, this issue of Scandinavian Studies has grown well beyond ...