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Chanting Up the Kraftaskalds: An Investigation into Their Image, Roles, and Magic

Westcoat, Eirik (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021-08)

This work investigates the Icelandic folktale figure known as the kraftaskáld (power poet, hereafter anglicized as kraftaskald). Prominent in Icelandic folklore of the Post-Reformation period of the sixteenth through early twentieth centuries, these ...
Death and Governmentality in Iceland: Neo-liberalism, Grief and the Nation-form

Árnason, Arnar; Hafsteinsson, Sigurjón Baldur (University of Iceland Press, 2018)

This book is a contribution to debates concerning the state of death in the contemporary Western world. Taking up the argument that death there has recently undergone a revival, the book problematizes the idea that this revival is caused by general ...
The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North

Jakobsson, Ármann (Punctum Books, 2017-07-18)

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