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May 2013 № 6 Edited by Frog Helen F. Leslie and Joseph S. Hopkins Published by Folklore Studies / Dept. of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies University of Helsinki, Helsinki ISSN 2324-0636 (print) ISSN 1799-4497 (online) www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/ 1 CONTENTS Editor’s Note .................................................................................................................................... 5 COMMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS The Notions of Model, Discourse, and Semantic Center as Tools for the (Re)Construction of Old Norse Religion .......................................................................................................................... 6 Jens Peter Schjødt The Tradition of Icelandic sagnakvæði .......................................................................................... 15 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir How Can You Tell Who’s Talking? – Transitions between Direct Speech and Narration in Vambarljóð..................................................................................................................................... 20 Haukur Þorgeirsson Remembering the Golden Past: Nostalgia as a Narrative Practice of Karelian Evacuees in Finland ........................................................................................................................................... 25 Ulla Savolainen Sigvatr Þórðarson’s Vestrfararvísur and Cnut the Great’s Conquest of Norway in 1028 ............. 31 Jakub Morawiec Forecasting the Rain of Óðinn: Referential Ambiguity in Kennings Referring to POETRY ........... 40 Debbie Potts Þjálfi’s Journey: An Example of How to Incorporate Younger Sources in the Comparative Study of Indigenous Religions of Northern Europe ....................................................................... 47 Maths Bertell The (De)Construction of Mythic Ethnography I: Is Every þurs in Verse a þurs? ......................... 52 Frog Events Conference Report – Historical Infrastructure of the Baltic Sea: Ways, Reason and Consequences: 3rd Meeting of the Austmarr Network ................................................................... 73 Karolina Kouvola Conference Report – The 2nd Meeting of the Old Norse Folklorists Network: “Encounter with the Otherworld in Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss”, Symposium and Workshop ........................... 76 Mart Kuldkepp Projects, Networks and Resources The Tartu Model ............................................................................................................................ 78 Daniel Sävborg and Karen Bek-Pedersen The Danish Folklore Nexus ........................................................................................................... 80 Timothy Tangherlini Austmarr Network Website ........................................................................................................... 81 Kendra Willson 2 PEOPLE Research Reports Frog Death by Wisdom: Myth and the Ideology of Oral Knowledge-Objects in the Circum-Baltic Region ............................................................................................................ 82 Mythology, Poetic Register and Dialects of Singing ............................................................. 83 Karina Lukin The Grammar of Moving between the Worlds in Nenets Epic Poetry .................................. 83 Eila Stepanova “Kallehen kandajazen kandamaista kaimatah”: Variety and Flexibility of Alliteration in Karelian Laments ................................................................................................................... 84 Kendra Willson Localization in Saga Dreams and Dreaming Scenes .............................................................. 84 Runic Coordination and the Death of IE *kue ....................................................................... 85 Lectures Eldar Heide Why Care about Later Folklore in Old Norse Studies? ......................................................... 87 Published Articles Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir Saga Motifs in Medieval Art and Legend .............................................................................. 89 Frog Alvíssmál and Orality I: Formula, Alliteration and Categories of Mythic Being .................. 90 Jonathan Roper Synonymy and Rank in Alliterative Poetry ........................................................................... 91 Monographs Stefan Brink Vikingarnas slavar: Den nordiska träldomen under yngre järnålder och äldsta medeltid [‘Slaves of the Vikings: Nordic Thralldom in the Late Iron Age and Early Midde Ages’]... 91 Emily Lyle Ten Gods: A New Approach to Defining the Mythological Structures of the Indo-Europeans ...................................................................................................................... 93 PhD Projects Niina Hämäläinen One Family, Shared Emotions: Textualisation Methods and Articulation of Lyrical Folk Poetry in the Kalevala .................................................................................................... 94 3 JOURNALS Studia Metrica et Poetica ............................................................................................................... 98 Mihhail Lotman PLACES The Kalevala Society Encourages the Study and Interpretation of Kalevala ................................ 99 Elina Lampela The Folklore Society .................................................................................................................... 102 Caroline Oates CALLS FOR PAPERS Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance ..................................................... 103 Reading and Writing from Below: Exploring the Margins of Modernity ................................... 104 Indigenous Ideas and Foreign Influences: Interactions among Oral and Literary, Latin and Vernacular Cultures in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe ....................................... 105 Sagas, Legends and Trolls: The Supernatural from Early Modern back to Old Norse Tradition ....................................................................................................................................... 106 Would You Like to Submit to RMN Newsletter? 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