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ISSN (Print) 1834-3147 - ISSN (Online) 1834-3147
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A Cultural Revolution: Lawmaking and Historiography in Iceland,
1096–1133
- Abstract: In the manuscripts of the Icelandic laws, which are collectively known as Grágás [Greygoose] and were written down between 1250 and 1272, there is a section on Christian law, known as The Early Christian Law [Kristniréttr hinn forni] (for an overview of the Icelandic laws and key manuscripts, see Sandvik and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson 2005, 224–29). These legal provisions are concerned with daily life and the relations between the Church and laymen. Secular courts were authorized to hear cases in which clerics were involved, except for a priest's disobedience, which was to be judged by the bishop.One of the main manuscripts of the law code, Staðarhólsbók, includes a clause on the composition of the earliest Christian ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Sovereignty, Exploration, and Anglo-Danish Relations: Denmark's
Territorial Interests in Greenland and the North Atlantic during the
Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
- Abstract: On June 20, 1605, James Hall, the pilot of a fleet the Danish monarchy sponsored, set foot on Greenland's western shore. This landing marked the first official contact that the Danish Crown had made with its Greenlandic territory since the early 1400s. This expedition had two purposes. The first was to reacquaint the Danes with the sailing routes to Greenland, and the second was to reestablish Danish authority over Viking settlements the Danish Crown had lost contact with 200 years earlier. Two more royal expeditions followed in 1606 and 1607 as the Crown sought to explore and map Greenland and find the remnants of the Scandinavian settlements. These expeditions were a key aspect of the Danish Crown's agenda in the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Hamsun's Merker: Naming and Advertising in "På turné" and
Mysterier
- Abstract: Famous names and brand names have not always commanded the same massive attention from the public as they do today. In mid-nineteenth century in Scandinavia, most products, from foodstuffs to literary texts, were still often sold without a proper name or brand name attached to them.1 Little by little, however, names and brands became increasingly important, ushering in what Fredric Jameson has identified as the global era of "commercial nominalism," where "everything unique and interesting tends towards the proper name" (Jameson 2003, 113).This shift was intimately felt by many authors toward the end of the century. In the 1879 novel Röda rummet (The Red Room), for example, August Strindberg critically examined the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Climate Change and Denial in Brit Bildøen's Sju dagar i august
- Abstract: "Climate crisis has so much become part of the contemporary cultural consciousness that it forms an inherent background to twenty-first century life" (Bracke 2019, 1). Consequently, the climate crisis permeates works of literature about other topics and—in a parallel movement—a growing ecocritical awareness regarding representations of climate change is affecting how such fiction is interpreted. Astrid Bracke's work on climate crisis and the postmillennial British novel is a prominent example.As climate change has become an important part of our cultural consciousness, changing our existential conditions, it necessarily affects people's emotional states. Hence fictional depictions of how people relate to climate ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Knausgård's Scandalous "Labia": Shame, Re-Enchantment, and the Pursuit of
a More Imaginative Sex Education
- Abstract: "Kjønnslepper" ("Labia") is an entry in the first volume of Karl Ove Knausgård's encyclopedia of the seasons series, Om høsten (Autumn) (2015). In a 2018 television interview, Knausgård described Autumn as the amalgamation of two projects: the first motivated by a desire to turn away from his "own psyche" and "inner life" (the subjects of his monumental novel, My Struggle) and toward the objects of the "material world"; the second a private diary for his unborn daughter. Autumn consists of three letters to this daughter, each followed by twenty short entries, in which Knausgård describes, and records his thoughts on, objects and phenomena ranging from apples to the Daguerreotype, from toilet bowls to silence. The ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics by Kate Heslop
(review)
- Abstract: Unlike most of the northern vernacular literature of the same period, skaldic poetry is very much situational and authored, embedded in the context of the poet and court, and concerns events or objects often taken to be real or historical. Its connection with the memory of the Nordic past was noted already by medieval historians (Saxo, Theodoricus, Snorri) and put into practice in the historical and pseudo-historical literature of the later Middle Ages, which use it to authenticate its narratives. The methods to preserve Skaldic poetry, or at least the criteria to determine its authenticity, are outlined in the preface to Heimskringla. According to this preface, a poem is deemed authentic if it consistently makes ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900–1550: Between Two Oceans by Kirsi
Salonen and Kurt Villads Jensen (review)
- Abstract: Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900–1550: Between Two Oceans is co-written by historians Kirsi Salonen and Kurt Villads Jensen. Being a Finn working in Bergen and a Dane in Stockholm, respectively, the authors are ideally geohistorically situated to write a book covering the whole of Scandinavia, which here includes Finland and Iceland. Scandinavian medieval historiography has been predominantly nationally oriented in the past. Typically, as in the Cambridge History of Scandinavia (2003), contributions are almost always written about each particular country, and it is up to the reader to compare and identify developments for the whole region. There are historical accounts that deal with Scandinavia as a unified ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Adelns historia i Finland ed. by Janne Haikari et al. (review)
- Abstract: Were the nobility in Finland responsible statesmen working for the good of the realm or egotistical snobs whose only goal was to enrich themselves and accumulate honors and estates' How did they contribute to the development of Finnish culture, the state, and the economy' Is it even possible to identify a distinctly Finnish nobility' These are a few of the questions that the authors in Adelns historia i Finland (The History of the Nobility in Finland) address in a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the nobility from its origins in the Finnish Middle Ages to its dissolution with the birth of the Republic of Finland in 1918. In this impressive volume, the contributors demonstrate that the nobility played ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World,
1770–1919 by Tim van Gerven (review)
- Abstract: War shaped the Scandinavian states, and in turn, the Scandinavian states engaged in warfare with each other. While this rephrasing of Charles Tilly's famous dictum (from The Formation of National States in Western Europe, Princeton University Press, 1975, p. 42) may diverge from present-day Scandinavian self-perception, it remains a fact that Scandinavian history and state-building have been profoundly influenced by inter-Scandinavian warfare. One might expect that Scandinavian relations were fraught with legends and deep animosity. Surprisingly, this is not entirely the case. The reason lies in the nineteenth-century pan-nationalist movement Scandinavianism.Despite its significant effect on culture, history ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Economic Performance in the Nordic World by Torben M. Andersen, and:
Equality in the Nordic World by Carsten Jensen (review)
- Abstract: For more than a decade, Aarhus University Press has published a series of short books (roughly 100 pages) on a wide variety of subjects, usually authored by faculty. This series is expanding in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Press. These initial concise volumes cover social science topics, and the humanities are now being covered. Although none can go into the depth of traditional academic tomes, their conciseness, focus, and affordable price should attract new readers, including university students.Torben Andersen is well known in Scandinavia for his critical research on the performance and viability of Nordic economies. Economic Performance in the Nordic World focuses on Denmark but includes ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema by Benjamin
Bigelow (review)
- Abstract: In an emblematic scene in Lars von Trier's Epidemic (1987), a combination of art house meta-cinema and epidemiological horror, von Trier and his co-writer Niels Vørsel undertake research for their new film script at the Danish National Archive. The archive contains the cultural memory of Denmark, but the mood and atmosphere of the place is characterized by noirish paranoia. An archivist points out how the walls in the basement ooze and make strange cracking and popping sounds and staff used to be afraid of going down there. The camera moves in to look more closely at the cracks in the old walls, while von Trier comments on what he sees as a type of "wall disease."For film scholar Benjamin Bigelow, this lingering ... Read More
  PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00

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