1 Arv Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 2009 2 3 ARVARV 4 © 2008 by The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala ISSN 0066-8176 All rights reserved Printed with grants from Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council), Stockholm, Sweden Articles appearing in this yearbook are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life 1998– Editorial address: Prof. Arne Bugge Amundsen Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages University of Oslo Box 1010 Blindern NO–0315 Oslo, Norway phone + 4722857629 fax + 4722854828 http:// www.hf.uio.no/ikos/forskning/arv/index.html Cover: Kirsten Berrum For index of earlier volumes, see http://www.kgaa.nu/tidskrift.php Distributor Swedish Science Press Box 118, SE–751 04 Uppsala, Sweden phone: +46(0)18365566 fax: +46(0)18365277 e-mail:
[email protected] Printed in Sweden Textgruppen i Uppsala AB, Uppsala 2009 5 Contents Articles Lizette Gradén and Hanne Pico Larsen: Nordic Spaces in the North and North America. Heritage Preservation in Real and Imagined Nordic Places . 7 Valdimar Tr. Hafstein: Collectivity by Culture Squared. Cultural Heritage in Nordic Spaces . 11 Janet C. Gilmore: Mount Horeb’s Oljanna Venden Cunneen. A Norwegian-American Rosemaler “on the Edge” . 25 Kristinn Schram: Performing the North. Folk Culture, Exoticism and Irony among Expatriates . 49 Lizette Gradén: Transatlantic Place Making. The Use of Swedish Bridal Crown as Heritage Performance in the United States . 73 Hanne Pico Larsen: Danish Maids and Visual Matters. Celebrating Heritage in Solvang, California . 93 James P. Leary: New Legends in Nordic America. The Case of Big Erick Erickson . 111 Survey Article Henning Laugerud: The Collection of Norwegian Witchcraft-trials in the Norwegian Folklore Archives (Norsk Folkeminnesamling) at the University of Oslo .