Nordisk personalhistorisk Folke-Kalender
Author | : D. E. Rugaard |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1863 |
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Author | : D. E. Rugaard |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1863 |
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Author | : Cornell University. Libraries |
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Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Icelandic literature |
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Total Pages | : 212 |
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Author | : Linas Eriksonas |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789052012001 |
This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.
Author | : Reidar Christiansen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2016-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022637520X |
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
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : Washington : [s.n.] |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
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Total Pages | : 1028 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1036 |
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Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1262 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Children's stories, Danish |
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Total Pages | : 976 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Lutheran Church |
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