{"title":"Ebba Hjorth (Hauptherausgeberin), Henrik Galberg Jacobsen, Bent Jørgensen, Birgitte Jacobsen, Laurids Kristian Fahl: Dansk Sproghistorie","authors":"C. Lindqvist","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2022-2027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2022-2027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"138 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48811642","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":"Precursors of Sociolinguistic Typology","authors":"E. H. Jahr, Marcin Kilarski","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the contribution of the Norwegian historian, politician, and ethnologist Ludvig Kristensen Daa (1809–1877) to the study of the Indigenous languages of North America. We focus on his accounts of sound systems, where he argued that North American languages are characterized by greater linguistic diversity, small consonant inventories and gaps in inventories, unusual sounds, and indistinct pronunciation of consonants. Daa attributed these features to the use of the languages in small and isolated communities, thus anticipating more recent discussions in which the degree of linguistic complexity is attributed to social and demographic factors. While some of his claims reflect methodological shortcomings of pre-20th-century phonetic study, the factors which according to Daa shape languages spoken in isolation are analogous to the parameters now examined by typologists, thus providing a sense of continuity across centuries in the links sought between structural diversity among languages and external factors.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"99 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45636665","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":"Erik Zillén: Fabelbruk i svensk tidigmodernitet. En genrehistorisk studie","authors":"Besprochen von Jürg Glauser","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2022-2032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2022-2032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"168 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47753209","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":"Mnemonic ‘Boundary Objects’ and Postcolonial Restitution","authors":"Magdalena Zolkos","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing on new materialist and object-centered historical criticism, this article analyses colonial and post-colonial discourses of the Greenlandic figurines of the mythical being of ill-wishing and revenge, tupilak (plural form: tupilait). It focuses on three tupilak figures, made in 1905/1906 by a shaman Mitsivarniannga on a request of a Danish ethnographer William Thalbitzer, which today are part of the Danish National Museum collections. In the early 20th century, Greenlandic tupilait (and Inuit cultural production in general) were an object of fascination among European collectors, artists, and the general public. Asking what these objects had come to mean in (and for) Europe, this article points to marginalized Greenlandic narratives of Mitsivarniannga’s tupilat, and builds a critical narrative of these objects as material effects of the disruptions of indigenous community and sustenance by Western colonialism. Drawing on critical insights from the current post-colonial restitution debates, it problematizes the differential political-economic conditions and relations of power, under which the colonial acquisitions and procurements took place. The article argues that cultural heritage items, such as the three tupilat, are mnemonic ‘boundary objects’ that can potentially forge links between disparate memories of colonialism in Denmark and Greenland.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"80 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42600008","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":"Frode Ulvund: Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960: The Construction of Jews, Mormons, and Jesuits as Anti-Citizens and Enemies of Society","authors":"Besprochen von Olaf Mörke","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2023-2005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2023-2005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"157 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44643627","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":"Naturens Amfiteater. Kunstens natur","authors":"Karen Klitgaard Povlsen","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2022-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2022-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Friederike Brun, née: Münter (1765–1835) became a famous writer in the German-speaking areas of Europe around 1800. She published collections of poems and travelogues in German, brought up as she was in the German and cosmopolitan circle in Copenhagen around Klopstock, Gerstenberg, her father, court chaplain Balthasar Münter, and others. Not least the writings of Ossian (MacPherson), Shakespeare, Gray and Richardson influenced her together with J. J. Rousseau. This contribution focuses on her early writings from 1782 until 1790. They have so far been neglected in research, being the products of a young woman, but they show the wide horizon of her circle, her father’s education of her, his introduction of her to the German intellectual elite of the time and her talent as a writer in a sentimental and enlightened-romantic tradition inspired by Schiller and Herder. She is interested in the aesthetics of nature and the relations between nature and culture and can in this respect be seen as an early ecocritical writer. Furthermore, she demonstrates female emancipation around 1800 and a cosmopolitical consciousness in a Europe heading towards national boundaries as well as language and gender barriers.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"240 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46424363","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":"„Så poetisk smukt, så naivt, så simpelt“","authors":"Andreas Hjort Møller","doi":"10.1515/ejss-2022-2015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2022-2015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg’s depiction of contemporary eighteenth-century Danish literature based on his writings on the notion of genius and on medieval poetry. Gerstenberg fuses his antiquarian interest in older Scandinavian literature with his critical writings on the new and modern poetry that he came across in Copenhagen in the middle of the eighteenth century. Thereby, he identified a specific Danish style of simpleness. Gerstenberg’s concept of ‘Danish simplicity’ was a central part of the Sturm und Drang and the Romantic movement, and it might even to this day affect the Germans’ ideas about the culture of their northern neighbor country.","PeriodicalId":40403,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Scandinavian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"185 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45404384","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}