TY - BOOK ID - 80905973 TI - Icelandic folklore : and the cultural memory of religious change PY - 2021 SN - 1641893753 1641893761 9781641893763 9781641894654 PB - Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, DB - UniCat KW - Tradition. KW - Kollektives Gedächtnis. KW - Island. KW - Aisland KW - Aisland ka Fasojamana KW - Aisurando KW - Cynewīse Īslandes KW - Eisland KW - Gweriniaeth Gwlad yr Iâ KW - Gwlad yr Iâ KW - Ísland KW - Islanda KW - Islande KW - Islandi KW - Islandia KW - Islandii︠a︡ KW - İslandiya KW - Islandska KW - Islandya KW - Islandyi︠a︡ KW - Islėnd KW - Iylanda KW - Lýðveldið Ísland KW - Peng-tē KW - Peng-tē Kiōng-hô-kok KW - Republic of Iceland KW - Rèpublica d'Islande KW - Republica Islanda KW - Republiek van Ysland KW - Republik Island KW - Republika Islandii︠a︡ KW - Rėspublika Islandyi︠a︡ KW - Tin Bikéyah KW - Tin Kéyah KW - Ysland KW - Рэспубліка Ісландыя KW - Република Исландия KW - Исланд KW - Исланди KW - Исландия KW - Ислэнд KW - Ісландыя KW - アイスランド KW - Icelandic Reformation. KW - Icelandic folktales. KW - Old Norse Christianization. KW - Scandinavian folklore. KW - cultural memory. KW - Folklore KW - Tales KW - Reformation KW - Christianity KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Folklore. KW - Iceland KW - Social life and customs. KW - Religions KW - Church history KW - Protestant Reformation KW - Counter-Reformation KW - Protestantism KW - Folk tales KW - Folktales KW - Folk literature KW - Folk beliefs KW - Folk-lore KW - Traditions KW - Ethnology KW - Manners and customs KW - Material culture KW - Mythology KW - Oral tradition KW - Storytelling KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80905973 AB - Nearly all recent examinations of Icelandic (and Scandinavian) folklore from the nineteenth century and earlier have concerned themselves with the origins and production of folktales rather than with the cultural implications of their content. This volume extends those discussions by offering an interdisciplinary methodology that weaves together the literature, religious and political history, and other cultural phenomena that have impacted folk narratives as evidence of the emergent cultural memory of a society undergoing the religious developments of Christianization and Reformation. Iceland's uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the "re-oralization" of those narratives after the medieval period, create a body of folktales and legends that have encoded a hidden account of how orthodox and heterodox beliefs (sometimes pagan in origin) intermingled as Christianity, and later Reformation, spread through the North. This volume unlocks that secret story by placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social history, and Old Norse sagas and poetry. The analysis herein reveals a cultural memory of belief. ER -