SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/idju6751
Alison Finlay
{"title":"So Far and No Further: The Story of Cnut and the Waves","authors":"Alison Finlay","doi":"10.54432/scand/idju6751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/idju6751","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces the history of the legend of Cnut’s abortive attempt to rebuke the waves, from its first appearance in the twelfth-century Historia Anglorum of Henry of Huntingdon to modern critiques of climate change. Early versions located it in accounts of the king’s demonstrative piety, emphasising the limits of imperial power and the need for monarchs to acknowledge the superior power of God. Comparable tales in classical sources and medieval Welsh legends and saints’ lives suggest a possible oral origin for the story. From the eighteenth century the accusation of vainglory was transferred to an audience of courtiers who were rebuked by the pious king; claims were also made about the physical location of the scene. In modern journalistic parlance, Cnut is a byword for a delusional attempt to avert the inevitable, the most recent example being the coining of the term ‘Canute syndrome’ to describe climate-change denial.","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85285618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/ugfa6890
Calum A. Cockburn
{"title":"Cnut’s Siege of London: A Virtual Exhibition","authors":"Calum A. Cockburn","doi":"10.54432/scand/ugfa6890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/ugfa6890","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77552357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/gxor9440
E. Parker
{"title":"‘Merry sang the monks’: Cnut’s Poetry and the Liber Eliensis","authors":"E. Parker","doi":"10.54432/scand/gxor9440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/gxor9440","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses a short English verse preserved in the twelfthcentury Liber Eliensis, which is there claimed to have been composed by Cnut during a royal visit to Ely. Often described as one of the first examples of Early Middle English verse, these few lines are also of considerable interest as evidence for Cnut’s reputation in post-Conquest England. The association of Cnut with the public performance of vernacular poetry seems particularly significant in light of the important role played by the composition and performance of skaldic poetry at Cnut’s Anglo-Danish court. This article examines Cnut’s relationship with Ely and argues that reading the Ely verse in this context can shed light not only on the interpretation of Cnut in post-Conquest Ely, but also on perceptions of the role and status of vernacular poetry in eleventhand twelfth-century England.","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82442362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/mgex8970
Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
{"title":"Review: Galleri 66. En historie om nyere dansk litteratur","authors":"Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen","doi":"10.54432/scand/mgex8970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/mgex8970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80102727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/mtcx2551
J. Garton
{"title":"Scandinavian Studies in 1977: A Retrospective","authors":"J. Garton","doi":"10.54432/scand/mtcx2551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/mtcx2551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72526951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/jkvs5496
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
{"title":"Review: Rethinking National Literatures and the Literary Canon in Scandinavia","authors":"Mads Rosendahl Thomsen","doi":"10.54432/scand/jkvs5496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/jkvs5496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87389340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/kksq2756
R. Mcturk
{"title":"Review: The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus’ Realms","authors":"R. Mcturk","doi":"10.54432/scand/kksq2756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/kksq2756","url":null,"abstract":"Marianne E. Kalinke (ed.) _The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms_\u0000This book traces, in nine out of its ten chapters, the literary reception of the _matiere de Bretagne_ in medieval and medieval-to-modern Scandinavia; the tenth chapter (by Susana Torres Prieto) deals with Czech and Belarusian treatments of the Tristan story dating respectively from the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77163510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/frbj1764
M. Mori
{"title":"Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People: An Inter-sociocultural Perspective","authors":"M. Mori","doi":"10.54432/scand/frbj1764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/frbj1764","url":null,"abstract":"Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People is frequently performed worldwide today. Its popularity must be due to the relevance of the problems depicted therein to the current global context, such as extreme individualism, democracy vs. mobocracy, environmental pollution, manipulation of information, and the conservative education system. An Enemy of the People was the first Ibsen play to be staged in Japan, although it was adapted for the Japanese setting. At the time of its staging, it reflected the then much-debated issue of copper mine pollution in central Japan. Norway and Japan underwent similar processes of modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century, although with a certain time lag. Therefore, in order to properly appreciate An Enemy of the People today, this article examines the play from an inter-sociocultural perspective. Adopting this perspective allows us to demonstrate the continued relevance of Ibsen to our post-modern world.","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79317410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SCANDINAVICAPub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.54432/scand/dkbf3006
Charlotte E Berry
{"title":"Nordic Literature for Adults and Children in the United Kingdom, 1950–2010: A Bibliographical Survey","authors":"Charlotte E Berry","doi":"10.54432/scand/dkbf3006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54432/scand/dkbf3006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40291,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVICA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82327289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}