دانلود کتاب Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150-1400

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Frontmatter I

Contents V

Introduction: The Paranormal Encounter 1

Part I: Experiencing the Paranormal

“I See Dead People”: The Externalization of Paranormal Experience in Medieval Iceland
Ármann Jakobsson 9

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Haunted Saga Homesteads, Climate Fluctuations, and the Vulnerable Self
Miriam Mayburd 21

Happy Endings: The (Para)Normality of Miracles
Ásdís Egilsdóttir 39

Þórgunna’s Dinner and Other Medieval Liminal Meals: Food as Mediator between this World and the Hereafter
Andrea Maraschi 49

A Troll Did It?: Trauma as a Paranormal State in the Íslendingasögur
Marion Poilvez 71

Traversing the Uncanny Valley: Glámr in Narratological Space 89

On the Threshold: The Liminality of Doorways 109

The Burial of Body Parts in Old Icelandic Grágás
Sean B. Lawing 131

Paranormal Prose: “Para-Narrative” and Ice in the Icelandic Sagas
Daniel C. Remein 151

Part II: Figures of the Paranormal

Encounters with Hliðskjálf in Old Norse Mythology
Andrew McGillivray 175

“Ok flýgr þat jafnan”: Icelandic Figurations of Böðvarr bjarki’s Monster
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar 193

Demons, Muslims, Wrestling Champions: The Semantic History of Blámenn from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century
Arngrímur Vídalín 203

The New Faith vs. The Undead: Christmas Showdowns
Kent Pettit 227

Following up on Female fylgjur: A Re-Examination of the Concept of Female fylgjur in Old Icelandic Literature
Zuzana Stankovitsová 245

Dólgr í byggðinni: Meeting the Social Monster in the Sagas of Icelanders
Rebecca Merkelbach 263

Part III: Literature and the Paranormal

Even a Henchman Can Dream: Dreaming at the Margins in Brennu-Njáls saga
Christopher Crocker 279

A Normal Relationship?: Jarl Hákon and Þorgerðr Hǫlgabrúðr in Icelandic Literary Context
Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir 295

Priest Ketill’s Journey to Rome
Gunnvör S. Karlsdóttir 311

“Darraðarljóð” and Its Context within Njáls saga: Sorcery, Vision, Leizla?
Ingibjörg Eyþórsdóttir 327

Paranormal Tendencies in the Sagas: A Discussion about Genre
Martina Ceolin 347

Reading the Landscape in Grettis saga: Þórhallur, the meinvættur, and Glámur
Shaun F. D. Hughes 367

Trolling Guðmundr: Paranormal Defamation in Ljósvetninga saga
yoav tirosh 395

“Meir af viel en karlmennsku”: Monstrous Masculinity in Viktors saga ok Blávus
Védís Ragnheiðardóttir 421

Index 433