The Nordic Riddle
Author: Laurits Bødker
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13:
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Riddles
Author: Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9517465769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRiddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions. It introduces the reader to different riddling situations and the many functions of riddles, wich vary from education to teasing, and from defusing a heated situation to entertainment. In addition to providing a survey of international riddle scholarship, the book has a comprehensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading.
Old Norse Folklore
Author: Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2023-12-15
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1501773488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of thisfascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and performance theory to memory studies, and myths relating to pre-Christian Nordic religion to innovations within late medieval pilgrimage song culture. Old Norse Folklore provides critical new perspectives on the Old Norse world, some of which appear in this volume for the first time in English. Stephen A. Mitchell presents emerging methodologies by analyzing Old Norse materials to offer a better understandings ofunderstanding of Old Norse materials. He examines, interprets, and re-interprets the medieval data bequeathed to us by posterity—myths, legends, riddles, charms, court culture, conversion narratives, landscapes, and mindscapes—targeting largely overlooked, yet important sources of cultural insights.
A World of Others' Words
Author: Richard Bauman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1405143614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer a sparkling look at intertextuality as communicative practice. A fascinating perspective on intertextuality: the idea that written and spoken texts speak to one another, e.g. through genre or allusions. Presents a series of ethnographic case studies to illustrate the topic. Draws on a broad range of oral performances and literary records from across the world. The author’s introduction sets a framework for the analysis of genre, perform and intertextuality. Shows how performers blend genres, e.g., telling stories about riddles or legends about magical verses, or constructing sales pitches.
Folklore and Folklife
Author: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 0226158713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.
The Husband's Message & the Accompanying Riddles of the Exeter Book
Author: Francis Adelbert Blackburn
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoutledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993)
Author: Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 1351665014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
Untying the Knot
Author: Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996-11-28
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0195356322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand the peculiar expressive power of the riddle, and the cultural logic of its particular uses; they scrutinize the riddle's logical structure and linguistic strategies, as well as its affinity to neighboring genres such as enigmas, puzzles, oracular prophecy, proverbs, and dreams. In this way, they begin to answer how riddles relate to the conceptual structures of a particular culture, and how they come to represent a culture's cosmology or cognitive map of the world. More importantly, these essays reveal the human need for symbolic ordering--riddles being one such form of cultural ritual.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Author: International Committe for Social Sciences
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1967-04
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780422802406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Odin’s Ways
Author: Annette Lassen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-12-24
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1000469824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the Old Norse god Odin. It includes references to all occurrences of Odin in the Old Norse/Icelandic texts, including Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the eddic poems, Snorri’s Edda, and Ynglinga saga and analyses the high medieval reception and literary representations of Odin rather than the religious character of the god. This is the only existing study of Odin in all the Old Norse/Icelandic texts and applies a contextual method: the different guises of Odin are studied on the basis of the various textual contexts and on their background in the literary and Christian intellectual milieu of the time. Contrary to existing studies, this method is non-reductive in that it does not aim at providing a synthesis about Odin’s original nature on the basis of the differing textual uses of Odin in the Middle Ages. The book argues that the perceived complexity of Odin, often highlighted in research, is first and foremost a function of the complex textual material spanning a wide variety of genres each with its particular literary conventions and of the reception of Odin in early modern and modern mythological studies.
