1 Arv Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 2014 2 3 ARVARV Nordic Yearbook of Folklore Vol. 70 Editor ARNE BUGGE AMUNDSEN OSLO, NORWAY SPECIAL ISSUE: MAGIC AND TEXTS Guest Editors: Ane Ohrvik and Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir Published by THE ROYAL GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS ACADEMY UPPSALA, SWEDEN Distributed by SWEDISH SCIENCE PRESS UPPSALA, SWEDEN 4 © 2015 by The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala ISSN 0066-8176 All rights reserved Editorial Board Anders Gustavsson, Oslo; Gustav Henningsen, Copenhagen Bengt af Klintberg, Lidingö; Ann Helene Bolstad Skjelbred, Oslo Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, Åbo (Turku) Articles appearing in this yearbook are abstracted and indexed in European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences ERIH PLUS 2011– Editorial address: Prof. Arne Bugge Amundsen Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages University of Oslo Box 1010 Blindern NO–0315 Oslo, Norway phone + 4792244774 e-mail:
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[email protected] Printed in Sweden Textgruppen i Uppsala AB, Uppsala 2015 5 Contents Articles Ane Ohrvik & Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir: Magic and Texts: An Introduction . 7 Clive Tolley: The Peripheral at the Centre. The Subversive Intent of Norse Myth and Magic . 15 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir: The Narrative Role of Magic in the Fornaldarsögur . 39 Stephen A. Mitchell: Leechbooks, Manuals, and Grimoires. On the Early History of Magical Texts in Scandinavia . 57 Fredrik Skott: Passing Through as Healing and Crime.