Author: Dennis Auburn Hill
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Norwegian Local History
Author: Dennis Auburn Hill
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Folktales of Norway
Author: Reidar Christiansen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637520X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls are familiar to English-speaking readers. Less well-known, but the subject of an enormous number of legends, are the more manlike yet sinister "huldre-folk" who live in houses and try to woo human girls. These tales reflect the wildness of Norway, its mountains, forests, lakes, and sea, and the stalwart character of its sparse population. "The translation is excellent, retaining the traditional Norwegian style . . . the tales themselves will also appeal to the interested layman."—Library Journal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637520X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls are familiar to English-speaking readers. Less well-known, but the subject of an enormous number of legends, are the more manlike yet sinister "huldre-folk" who live in houses and try to woo human girls. These tales reflect the wildness of Norway, its mountains, forests, lakes, and sea, and the stalwart character of its sparse population. "The translation is excellent, retaining the traditional Norwegian style . . . the tales themselves will also appeal to the interested layman."—Library Journal
Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia
Author: Dagfinn Skre
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110421151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
This book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia’s polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th–10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it’s eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book’s discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110421151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
This book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia’s polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th–10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it’s eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book’s discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Includes entries for maps and atlases
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Includes entries for maps and atlases
The National Union Catalog 1956 through 1967
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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The Journal of American Folklore
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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A Guide to Foreign Genealogical Research
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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The Types of the Norwegian Folktale
Author: Ørnulf Hodne
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This index to Norwegian fold tales and legends classifies tales by topic, giving sources and occurrences for each, with a bibliography of published sources and of Norwegian research on folktales.
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This index to Norwegian fold tales and legends classifies tales by topic, giving sources and occurrences for each, with a bibliography of published sources and of Norwegian research on folktales.
Medieval Painting in Northern Europe
Author: Unn Plahter
Publisher: Archetype Publications
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This text of analytical and art historical research on medieval painting and polychromy is published to commemorate the 70th birthday of Unn Plahter.
Publisher: Archetype Publications
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This text of analytical and art historical research on medieval painting and polychromy is published to commemorate the 70th birthday of Unn Plahter.