Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey PDF
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KATERN 1 ORDER 070828 K CONSTRUCTING NATIONS, RECONSTRUCTING MYTH Page 1 ORDER 070828 K MAKING THE MIDDLE AGES THE CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Series Editors Geraldine Barnes (University of Sydney) Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) Editorial Board Geraldine Barnes (University of Sydney) Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) Penelope Gay (University of Sydney) David Matthews (University of Manchester) Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne) Advisory Board Jürg Glauser (Universities of Zurich and Basel) Stephen Knight (University of Wales, Cardiff) Ulrich Müller (University of Salzburg) Russell Poole (University of Western Ontario) Tom Shippey (St Louis University) Richard Utz (Western Michigan University) Kathleen Verduin (Hope College, Michigan) Volume 9 Page 2 ORDER 070828 K CONSTRUCTING NATIONS, RECONSTRUCTING MYTH Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey edited by Andrew Wawn with Graham Johnson and John Walter H F Page 3 ORDER 070828 K British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Constructing nations, reconstructing myth : essays in hinour of T.A. Shippey. - (Making the Middle Ages ; v. 9) 1. Literature, Medieval - History and criticism 2. English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism 3. Philology, Modern 4. Myth in literature 5. Nationalism in literature I. Shippey, T. A. II. Wawn, Andrew III. Johnson, Graham IV. Walter, John 809'.02 ISBN-13: 9782503523934 © 2007, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium 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, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2007/0095/99 ISBN: 978-2-503-52393-4 Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper Page 4 ORDER 070828 K Tom Shippey Page 5 ORDER 070828 K Page 6 ORDER 070828 K CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Foreword xiii Part 1: Nations and Nationalism James Macpherson’s Ossian: Forging Ancient Highland 3 Identity for Scotland STEFAN THOMAS HALL ‘Lord and Protector of the Earth and its Inhabitants’: Poetry, 27 Philology, Politics, and Thor the Thunderer in Denmark and Germany, 1751–1864 MARTIN ARNOLD Beowulf Editions for the Ancestors: Cultural Genealogy and 53 Power in the Claims of Nineteenth-Century English and American Editors and Translators JOHN HILL The Forest Writes Back: The Ausbau of Finnish from Peasant 71 Vernacular to Modernity KEITH BATTARBEE Page 7 ORDER 070828 K viii Contents English and the Jutland Dialect; Or, The Demise of a 97 Romantic Notion HANS FREDE NIELSEN Part 2: Philology and Philologists How Elvish were the Álfar? 111 TERRY GUNNELL The Textual Criticism of Frederick Klaeber’s Beowulf 131 ROBERT D. FULK Some Critics of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi 155 ANDREW BREEZE Samuel Ferguson’s ‘Death-Song’ (1833): An Anglo-Irish 167 Response to Krákumál RORY MCTURK A Bit of a Lad: J. B. B. Roquefort (1777–1834) 193 KEITH BUSBY The Grimms, The Kirk-Grims, and Sabine Baring-Gould 215 ANDREW WAWN Wörter, Sachen, und Wahrheit: Philology and the Tree of 243 Language in Tolkien JONATHAN EVANS Part 3: Myths and Mythology Spouting Poetry: Cognitive Metaphor and Conceptual 277 Blending in the Old Norse Myth of the Poetic Mead PETER ORTON Page 8 ORDER 070828 K Contents ix Women’s Work and Women’s Magic as Literary Motifs in 301 Icelandic Sagas JOYCE TALLY LIONARONS What is ‘Middle-Earth’? Origin, Evolution, and Mythic 319 Function PAUL BATTLES Jacob Grimm and the Reconstruction of Estonian Religion 343 and Mythology DAVID ELTON GAY Tom Shippey: Academic Publications 357 Index 367 List of Contributors 381 Page 9 ORDER 070828 K Page 10
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