{"title":"Vestlandet – A Place of Cultural Encounter","authors":"Leonie Krutzinna, Maike Schmidt, Morten Øveraas","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2010","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on Norwegian–German cultural contacts in Western Norway in the first half of the 20th century. Although rural Western Norway has always been difficult to access, numerous cultural interrelations between German- and Norwegian-speaking artists, writers, and philosophers can be observed. These encounters can be characterised as real exchanges from person to person, but also as exchanges between persons and texts, or between persons and landscape. The article provides an overview of the Vestlandet region as a place of cultural encounter, focusing on the aesthetic, political and historical context of the early to mid-20th century.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139921956","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}
{"title":"Den konservative revolusjonen – i Thorleif Schirmer sitt forfattarskap","authors":"Morten Øveraas","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2014","url":null,"abstract":"This article asks if the phenomenon of the Conservative Revolution had exponents in rural western Norway in early 20<jats:sup>th</jats:sup> century. It sheds light on Thorleif Schirmer (1877–1941), a teacher and writer. Schirmer elaborated his ideology with radical and conservative rhetoric, influenced by German literature and politics. He presented a cyclical understanding of culture. To secure its existence, nations should revolutionize its mythical origins. Antisemitism fuelled his theories. The positive reception of Schirmer’s writings, indicates conceptual resemblance between the Scandinavian <jats:italic>folk</jats:italic> and the German <jats:italic>Volk</jats:italic>.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139947619","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}
{"title":"Romsdalens topografiske magi","authors":"Heming H. Gujord","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2009","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 1935 Ernst Jünger stayed for seven weeks in the small village Eidsbygda in the Romsdal-region on the west coast of Norway. In the book <jats:italic>Myrdun</jats:italic> (Lat. <jats:italic>Eriophorum</jats:italic>) he published letters elaborating on the local culture, but also transcended his observations into the realms of mythology and the unseen. In the novel <jats:italic>Besuch auf Godenholm</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>A visit to Godenholm</jats:italic>) Jünger further explores the realms of the human mind, alluding to Nordic culture, but also by means of a hallucinating trip to counteract the cultural despair in the aftermath of the Second World War. The article explores Jüngers transformation of a factual landscape into literature of different genres and modes of expression. Jüngers picture of Romsdal is also compared to the notion made by the Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson who was raised in Romsdal.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139922108","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}
{"title":"Ein Wiener am Nordkap","authors":"Julia Ilgner","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2012","url":null,"abstract":"The essay examines the exclusive journey to Scandinavia of the 34-year-old Austrian poet Arthur Schnitzler in the summer of 1896 on the basis of its documentation in the diary as well as in various correspondences. Especially in his love letters to his mistress Marie Reinhard, the young Viennese author, creates the ,fictional idea of an imaginary journey for two‘ in order to let her participate in his experiences abroad. On this source basis, Schnitzler’s ,touristic view‘ of the north and Western Norway in particular, as well as its productive reception in his literary work, are discussed in order to show the fictional as well as factual components of his image of the north and of northerness in general.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139922118","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}
{"title":"„So muß Loki gelacht haben“: Zum Einfluss nordischer Mythologie auf Arno Schmidts Juvenilia","authors":"Nikolas Buck","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2017","url":null,"abstract":"Arno Schmidt is one of the most thoroughly researched German post-war authors. However, there is a significant gap with regard to his stationing in Øverås, Norway, as part of the German occupation troops during the Second World War. This applies not only to Schmidt’s experiences in Norway, but also to the influence of this period on his literary work. Accordingly, I will pursue the question of how Schmidt used his ’Norwegian years’ in his literary work. In particular, I will consider the influence of Nordic mythology on the group of the so-called “Juvenilia”, four of which originated in Norway.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008979","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}
{"title":"Häuser am Hardangerfjord als Orte deutsch-norwegischer Kulturkontakte: Bertha Rohlsen, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff und Bess Mensendieck in Lofthus","authors":"Carolin Vogel","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2011","url":null,"abstract":"Due to its impressive nature and culture, the Hardanger region was a well-known and popular destination for Germans at the beginning of the 20th century. In the small village of Lofthus, art collector Bertha Rohlsen and gymnastics pioneer Bess Mensendieck even moved into their own summer homes. The expressionist painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was also a guest there and created images of the North that broke with traditional ways of seeing. This article examines the cultural contacts between people and landscape as well as the different kinds of cultural transfers that were made possible by the experience of space.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139921955","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}
{"title":"The Narrative Voice and its Comments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Jómsvíkinga saga","authors":"Anna Katharina Heiniger","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2015","url":null,"abstract":"This article pursues two objectives: as a software-based study, it first demonstrates how quantitative methods can be employed to harvest data, which is hard to retrieve as thoroughly and systematically without digital tools. In combination with ‘classic’, qualitative analyses, such an approach can contribute greatly to gaining new perspectives on (medieval) literary sources. Secondly, this article offers a case study of <jats:italic>Jómsvíkinga saga</jats:italic> (AM 291 4to) with particular focus on the narrative voice and its narratorial comments. They are used intentionally not only to select, structure, and guide the plot but also to embed the saga into the larger extradiegetic narrative tradition. Despite their brevity, the role of the comments goes beyond narratological organisation because they are simultaneously self-reflective on the process of narration. The narrative voice thus crafts a particular, highly artistic narrative about the adventures of the early Danish kings and the Jómsvikings.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"165 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139921953","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}
{"title":"Sentimentale Beobachter und naive Beobachtete","authors":"Niels Penke","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2008","url":null,"abstract":"This article is about differentiating the notion of cultural contact. Not every journey serves the exchange between different cultures when the travellers take on the role of an observer who does not or rarely interact with the observed, but rather projects his or her ideas and needs into them. Looking at the German authors Ernst Jünger and Edzard Schaper, the paper shows how this ,asymmetrical‘ cultural contact is realised in diaristic writings of both authors and what relationship of ,sentimental‘ observer and ,naïve‘ observed becomes visible in the process.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139921999","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}
{"title":"Das ,Ich‘, das ,Sie‘ und das ,Du‘ in Ernst Jüngers norwegischen Reisetagebuch Myrdun (1943)","authors":"Simon Hansen","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2013","url":null,"abstract":"In the sixth volume of <jats:italic>Min kamp</jats:italic>, Karl Ove Knausgård focuses on the European male generation that was significantly shaped by World War I. Knausgård also mentions the Lieutenant and later author Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), whose early autobiographical texts show only a perception of the self – but not a perception of the other. Based on Knausgård’s observation, this article examines to what extent a shift in perspective can be observed in Jünger’s travel literature, which was written during his time in Romsdal (Eidsbygda). This genre provides a promising subject for investigation, as writing about the other requires the physical presence of the other in direct confrontation.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008987","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}
{"title":"The (Vi)Kings’ Saga: Mixed Modality as the Key to the Construction of Meaning in Jómsvíkinga saga","authors":"Lucie Korecká","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2016","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this article is to analyse the narrative functions of mixed modality in <jats:italic>Jómsvíkinga saga</jats:italic>, a text that combines elements of different saga genres, primarily the kings’ sagas and the legendary sagas. It is argued here that the mixed modality is not a sign of the early saga’s imperfection, but it serves as a narrative device that contributes to the saga’s capacity to indirectly express commentary on social issues that were current at the time of the saga’s composition.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139922106","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}