Scandinavian Studies back issues from December 2003:
Marriage and the creation of kin in the sagas.(Critical Essay)
Dec 22, 2003; ... IN Gisla saga Surssonar, one of the best known of the Icelandic family sagas, Gisli's outlawry and eventual death result from a tragic conflict between two loyalties, one to his brother and the other to his brother-in-law, his wife's brother. This conflict exemplifies an issue that loomed ...
On the road to realism with Asbjornsen and Moe, Peer Gynt, and Henrik Ibsen.
Dec 22, 2003; ... IBSEN DEMONSTRATES a firm and subtle understanding of the distinction between the real and the realistic in the final act of Peer Gynt, when Peer tells the curious story of how the Devil tried to impress a crowd with his skills of pig-imitation. Thinking to ensure his success through ...
Stories of America: the rise of the "Indian Book" in Sweden 1862-1895.
Dec 22, 2003; ... IN 1959, with the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation poised to introduce its viewers to TV Westerns, the head of television, Nils Erik Baehrendtz, tried to persuade his audience to rune in to Gunsmoke. Using the corporation's programming magazine to accomplish that goal, Baehrendtz wrote a ...
On Branner, on Blixen: the battle over Rytteren.
Dec 22, 2003; ... IN A RECENT ARTICLE on H.C. Branner, the critic Erik Skyum-Nielsen referred to Branner's once revered, post-World War II novel Rytteren (1949; [The Riding Master]) as "uspiselig" ("To minutters" 25) [indigestible] to the modern reader. When first published, Rytteren captured the fancy of ...
Nostalgias and their publics the Finnish film boom, 1999-2001.
Dec 22, 2003; ... IF YOU WENT TO THE MOVIES at Helsinki's Tennispalatsi multiplex on a winter weekend in 1999, it would have proved difficult to get a ticket to Rukajarven tie (Saarela) [Ambush], the most popular Finnish film of the decade. At the time, Helsinki residents were flocking to Tennispalatsi and ...
The wise man with the child's heart: Bjorn Gunnlaugsson, 1788-1876.
Dec 22, 2003; ... ON 17 MARCH 1876, an old man died alone in a small house in Reykjavik. His death did not make much of a stir, even in Iceland, for he had outlived not only his own generation, but also largely the generation that followed him, and though a large and respectful congregation saw his body to ...
A quiet renaissance in Cora Sandel scholarship.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... * Billing, AnnaCarin. "Hvad er sannhet?": Studier i Cora Sandals novellistik. Oslo: Solum, 2002. Pp. 271. * Evensen, Nina. Erindringens vev: En studie av fortidsdimensjonens betydning i Cora Sandels Albertetrilogi. Tromso: Skriftserie om kvinneforskning, 1999. Pp. 127. ...
John Chr. Jorgensen and Thomas Bredsdorff, eds. Dansk forfatterleksikon.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... 2 volumes: Biografier and Vorker. Copenhagen: Rosinante, 2000. I: Pp. vii-xvii + 599; II: Pp. vii-xv + 307. Dansk forfatterleksikon is an extremely useful and multifaceted reference work. This compact two-volume dictionary of Danish authors and works is ambitious in scope; the ...
Sture Allen, Sture Berg, Sven-Goran Malmgren, Kerstin Noren, and Bo Ralph, eds. Festskrift till Martin Gellerstam den 15 oktober 2001: Galler stam, suffix och ord.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Mejerbergs arkiv for svensk ordforskning 29. Goteborg: Styrelse for Mejerbergs Institut vid Goteborgs Universitet, 2001. Pp. 4-62. Mejerbergs arkiv has issued a Festschrift for Martin Gellerstam, professor at Goteborgs Universitet in the Department of Swedish Language, with the ...
Thomas Bredsdorff. Chaos and Love: the Philosophy of the Icelandic Family Sagas.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Trans. John Tucker. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum P, 2001. Pp. 156. This book won some respect among Old Norse scholars when it was published in 1971 as Kaos og korlighed. Carol Clover, in her chapter of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide (1985) notes the ...
Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Military Migration and State Formation: the British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Lincoln: U Nebraska P, 2002. Pp. i-xiv + 192. Research on immigration has experienced recent growth in the historiography of early modern Sweden. Moreover, early modernists lately have sought to place Sweden and Scandinavia in wider European contexts. Mary Elizabeth Ailes's work ...
Armann Jakobsson. Stadur i nyjum heimi: Konungasagan Morkinskinnu.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Reykjavik: Haskolautgafan, 2002. Pp. 352. The name Morkinskinna [rotten vellum] is applied both to an Icelandic manuscript usually dated to about 1280 and to an account contained in it of the kings who reigned in Norway from 1030 to 1157. This account, usually considered to date ...
Hans-Goran Ekman. Karen Blixens paradoxer. Om Sju romantiska berattelser, Den afrikanska farmen och Vintersagor.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Uppsala: Gidlunds forlag, 2002. Pp. 203. Hans-Goran Ekman is a docent at Uppsala University who has written a number of books, the most noteworthy dealing with Lars Ahlin and August Strindberg. Ekman is therefore no stranger to challenging writers, and it was with great ...
Lars Levi Laestadius. Fragments of Lappish Mythology.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Ed. Juha Pentikainen. Trans. Borje Vahamaki. Beaverton, Ontario: Aspasia Books, 2002. Pp. 335. Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-61) is best known as a fiery revivalist preacher, whose followers became one of the most influential religious movements within Nordic Lutheranism. Yet ...
Elizabeth Ridel, ed. L'Heritage Maritime des Vikings en Europe de l'Ouest: Colloque International de la Hague (Flottemanville-Hague, 30 Septembre-3 Octobre 1999).(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2002. The twenty, contributors to this handsomely produced volume, equal numbers of French and foreign scholars, gathered on the Norman peninsula of La Hague to explore the Scandinavian impact on the coasts of early medieval Europe. La Hague ...
Martin Arnold. The Post-Classical Icelandic Saga.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Scandinavian Studies 9. Lewiston: The Edward Mellen v, 2003. Pp. ix + 275. There are two related issues in this book: one of genre definition and one of modern critical valuation of medieval Icelandic texts. The task that Arnold sets for himself, then, is to establish a clear ...
Marte Hvam Hult. Framing a National Narrative: the Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjornsen.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003. Pp. 260. $34.95. It is difficult to imagine a native Norwegian who does not know the name of E Chr. Asbjornsen. Together with his friend Jorgen Moe, Asbjornsen collected, edited, and published a selection of Norwegian folk tales that has come to ...
Jorgen Sevaldsen, ed. Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries.(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2003; ... Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum P, 2003. Pp. 1-658. An impressive new book exploring Anglo-Danish relations has just been published, and it is a valuable addition to Scandinavian area studies. The contributions range from scholars who examine the image of the other in each ...
Report of the president: the society for the advancement of Scandinavian study.(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2003; ... THE NINETY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS 2003) was hosted the Center for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Minnesota and held from 1-3 May at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Minneapolis. The SASS Executive Council met on ...
Financial report of the secretary-treasurer: 1 April 2002-31 December 2002.
Dec 22, 2003 ... THIS REPORT BEGINS the Society's transition to calendar-year counting mandated by the executive committee in May 2002. The Secretary-Treasurer has organized this report to reflect the purpose and status of each of the Society's assets. Some investments are intended to help support gifts ...
The ninety-third annual meeting: society for the advancement of Scandinavian study: Minneapolis, Minnesota 1-3 May 2003.
Dec 22, 2003 ... Thursday Afternoon SASS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING Thursday Evening KEYNOTE ADDRESS Friday Morning Session I, 8:30-10:00 A.M. I. TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL GRANTWRITING FOR INDMDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS Moderator: Edward Gallagher ...