In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre-Christian paganisms made way for a more favourable image of the noble heathen', inspired by Romantic primitivism and the quest for national authenticity. Poets and philologists in Scandinavia turned to medieval manuscripts containing the remnants of the worldview of the Vikings (asatru), and cultivated them as a repository of topoi and motifs for patriotic art. In this essay, I investigate how this positive reassessment of paganism tied into the national historiography of Iceland, and how it influenced the idea of an Icelandic Golden Age'. For this purpose, the oeuvre of Jon Jonsson Aoils, Iceland's most prolific historian of the early twentieth centu...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and grea...
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre-Christian...
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre-Christian...
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre-Christian...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In a comment on Richard F. Tomasson’s 1980 book about Iceland, the American sociologist Seymour Mart...
The Icelandic sagas can be read and interpreted in many ways. This article examines the sagas both a...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and grea...
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre-Christian...
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre-Christian...
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre-Christian...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
This article charts the role of Finnur Jónsson’s Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ in the development ...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In a comment on Richard F. Tomasson’s 1980 book about Iceland, the American sociologist Seymour Mart...
The Icelandic sagas can be read and interpreted in many ways. This article examines the sagas both a...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by prof...
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and grea...