Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey

400 Pages·2007·4.375 MB·English

by  Andrew Wawn

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CONSTRUCTING NATIONS,
RECONSTRUCTING MYTH
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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
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CONSTRUCTING NATIONS,
RECONSTRUCTING MYTH
Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey
edited by
Andrew Wawn
with Graham Johnson and John Walter
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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
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ISBN-13: 9782503523934
© 2007, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium
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ISBN: 978-2-503-52393-4
Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper
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Tom Shippey
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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
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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
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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
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