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Herjans Dísir: Valkyrjur, Supernatural Femininities, and Elite Warrior Culture in the Late Pre-Christian Iron Age
Herjans dísir: Valkyrjur, Supernatural Femininities, and Elite Warrior Culture in the Late Pre-Christian Iron Age Luke John Murphy Lokaverkefni til MA–gráðu í Norrænni trú Félagsvísindasvið Herjans dísir: Valkyrjur, Supernatural Femininities, and Elite Warrior Culture in the Late Pre-Christian Iron Age Luke John Murphy Lokaverkefni til MA–gráðu í Norrænni trú Leiðbeinandi: Terry Gunnell Félags- og mannvísindadeild Félagsvísindasvið Háskóla Íslands 2013 Ritgerð þessi er lokaverkefni til MA–gráðu í Norrænni Trú og er óheimilt að afrita ritgerðina á nokkurn hátt nema með leyfi rétthafa. © Luke John Murphy, 2013 Reykjavík, Ísland 2013 Luke John Murphy MA in Old Nordic Religions: Thesis Kennitala: 090187-2019 Spring 2013 ABSTRACT Herjans dísir: Valkyrjur, Supernatural Feminities, and Elite Warrior Culture in the Late Pre-Christian Iron Age This thesis is a study of the valkyrjur (‘valkyries’) during the late Iron Age, specifically of the various uses to which the myths of these beings were put by the hall-based warrior elite of the society which created and propagated these religious phenomena. It seeks to establish the relationship of the various valkyrja reflexes of the culture under study with other supernatural females (particularly the dísir) through the close and careful examination of primary source material, thereby proposing a new model of base supernatural femininity for the late Iron Age. The study then goes on to examine how the valkyrjur themselves deviate from this ground state, interrogating various aspects and features associated with them in skaldic, Eddic, prose and iconographic source material as seen through the lens of the hall-based warrior elite, before presenting a new understanding of valkyrja phenomena in this social context: that valkyrjur were used as instruments to propagate the pre-existing social structures of the culture that created and maintained them throughout the late Iron Age. -
Icelandic Folklore
i ICELANDIC FOLKLORE AND THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE ii BORDERLINES approaches,Borderlines methodologies,welcomes monographs or theories and from edited the socialcollections sciences, that, health while studies, firmly androoted the in late antique, medieval, and early modern periods, are “edgy” and may introduce sciences. Typically, volumes are theoretically aware whilst introducing novel approaches to topics of key interest to scholars of the pre-modern past. iii ICELANDIC FOLKLORE AND THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE by ERIC SHANE BRYAN iv We have all forgotten our names. — G. K. Chesterton Commons licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0. This work is licensed under Creative British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. © 2021, Arc Humanities Press, Leeds The author asserts their moral right to be identi�ied as the author of this work. Permission to use brief excerpts from this work in scholarly and educational works is hereby granted determinedprovided that to thebe “fair source use” is under acknowledged. Section 107 Any of theuse U.S.of material Copyright in Act this September work that 2010 is an Page exception 2 or that or limitation covered by Article 5 of the European Union’s Copyright Directive (2001/ 29/ EC) or would be 94– 553) does not require the Publisher’s permission. satis�ies the conditions speci�ied in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. ISBN (HB): 9781641893756 ISBN (PB): 9781641894654 eISBN (PDF): 9781641893763 www.arc- humanities.org print-on-demand technology. -
Sir Terry Pratchett in Conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Simpson
Sir Terry Pratchett in conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Simpson Recorded on 26th August 2010 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole as part of the Discworld Convention by Katie Brown and Julie Sutton Please note, there are some embedded links within the transcript to articles from Folklore, which you may be interested in reading. If your institution subscribes to Folklore, you may have online access. Part 2 Terry Pratchett: You have folklore and folksong and old crafts and all these things and they tend to come together and I’m glad to see that these days people are becoming more interested in them again, because in the 1960’s there was a general folk revival and that probably was why my interest in folklore kind of sprang out of that. Jacqueline Simpson: Yes and what made you want to write Folklore of Discworld 1, or provoke me into assisting on Folklore of Discworld 2? TP: Prod you into doing it! I once spoke to the Folklore Society. JS: I was secretary of the Folklore Society at that stage and I was responsible for inviting Terry to come and give us this lecture and because I was secretary I was sitting at the table beside him while he was giving the talks and I can assure you that in the massed ranks of faces stretching to the back of the room and beyond, and people peering round the door, there was only one that did not laugh, relax and be happy. TP: I started off by saying “I am a writer so I think about folklore as a carpenter thinks about trees”. -
Sir Terry Pratchett in Conversation with Dr
Sir Terry Pratchett in conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Simpson Recorded on 26th August 2010 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole as part of the Discworld Convention by Katie Brown and Julie Sutton Please note, there are some embedded links within the transcript to articles from Folklore, which you may be interested in reading. If your institution subscribes to Folklore, you may have online access. Part 3 Terry Pratchett: Almost running parallel with folklore for me is an interest not only in just the history of London but in the history of the development of the countryside, particularly over the last five centuries for example. And I’ve found many kind of interesting things there. I’m fascinated by the way folklore was entwined with truth in people’s lives. Whatever happens, urban myth for example is folklore, it is simply folklore. It’s not different from folklore. Jacqueline Simpson: No. And the amazement of the older generation of folklorists, indeed the fury of the older generation of folklorists, when young Americans and a few young folklorists also in England started saying ”we’re going to discuss, collect and analyze stories like the ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken’ and ‘The Hook’”. TP: Oh, the hook on the bumper? JS: Do you know ‘Kentucky fried chicken’? TP: I don’t know ‘Kentucky fried chicken’ and possibly shouldn’t at this point. Do you know about the couple in the mini car? JS: Bumpety bumpety on the roof? TP: No, no, no that was another one. That was a fact, shall we say they were in flagrante delicto. -
Sir Terry Pratchett in Conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Simpson
Sir Terry Pratchett in conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Simpson Recorded on 26th August 2010 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole as part of the Discworld Convention by Katie Brown and Julie Sutton Part 1 Terry Pratchett: When did you first encounter folklore? Jacqueline Simpson: Well I encountered it without actually knowing what it was, giving it any name or anything, when I was a child I suppose, from about five years old onwards in various different forms. My Mother introduced me to Grimm’s Fairytales1, which I loved, and a little bit later to Hans Andersen’s, most of which I hated. And on the other hand the gardener would say things like “ah you know, if you cut a worm in half it can join itself together again and you can see some of them with a kind of thick bit round the middle which shows that’s what happened to them”. And, what else? Well, for instance, there was the question of treacle mines. Now you know about treacle mines too don’t you Terry? TP: My Father, every time he used to drive past Bisham, which is near Marlow on the Thames, he pointed out treacle mines to me. JS: How old were you? TP: That must have been when we were going down to Lyme Regis so I reckon seven perhaps. Like all good folklore it’s tantalisingly reasonable; one can imagine treacle mines, I mean you know, the pit head and all the rest of it, and the guy getting sticky money and their wives have to scrub them down in the evening. -
A Dictionary of English Folklore
A Dictionary of English Folklore JACQUELINE SIMPSON STEVE ROUD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS A Dictionary of English Folklore This page intentionally left blank A Dictionary of English Folklore jacqueline simpson & steve roud 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris São Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw with associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Oxford University Press 2000 Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2000 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0–19–210019–X 10987654321 Typeset in Swift and Frutiger by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by T.J.