Article: Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies.

Article: Dancer Chvala stomps to Nordic folklore.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 26, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Danger: Dancers at work. It's business as usual when the Flying Foot Forum opens its latest project tonight at the Southern Theater: masked dancers holding sharp objects ready to jump from high places. Joe Chvala, the Forum's founder and director, is the guy who ultimately yells "Jump!" though more

Article: Per Arvid Saves: Moten med manniskor och sagor.
Scandinavian Studies;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... restricts himself to those texts that he sees as metaphors for social tensions. That allegorical approach is one condoned by Brynjulf Alver and Bengt Holbek, but its limitations are implicitly made apparent by Palmenfeldt when he admits that he hales out any ...

Article: Nordic yearbook of folklore 1998.(Review) (book reviews)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... lifestories. The philosophical strengths of Nordic folklore come out in the Yearbook's coverage ... rare English-language insight into Nordic folklore research published in indigenous languages ... I was elated by the strength of Nordic folklore scholarship and depressed when comparing ...

Article: The Little Mermaid: icon and disneyfication.(Critical essay)
Scandinavian Studies;  December 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... at the bottom of the river. Sea cattle belong in later Nordic folklore to the merpeople and were therefore associated with mermen ... magical element that was respected for the sake of fertility. Nordic folklore also describes bipartite bodies that were hall woman and ...

Article: Fish market king who was a stage emperor.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... widely, developing new sources of fresh fish supplies in Scotland and Scandinavia where he acquired a lasting interest in Nordic folklore But it was his talent on stage for which he became renowned and how he came to the attention of Crossroads star Noele Gordon ...

Article: All the World's Reward: Folktales Told by Five Scandinavian ...
Hollins Critic;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Scandinavian folklore. Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend was published in 1988 and revised in 1991. It was followed by Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies in 1989. In this final book of the series, the editors provide a critical study of oral folklore representing ...

Article: `Duo Life' explores pop edges
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 21, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... saxophonist and composer Jan Garbarek here begins his third decade with ECM, the ethereal West German label. Rooted in Nordic folklore and other traditional forms, "I Took Up the Runes" casts a characteristically pensive but uplifting spell. It's not ...