Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe
Edited by Matthias Egeler
This volume explores the intersection of landscape and myth in the context of north-western Atlantic Europe. From the landscapes of literature to the landscape as a lived environment, and from myths about supernatural beings to tales about the mythical roots of kingship, the contributions gathered here each develop their own take on the meanings behind ‘landscape’ and ‘myth’, and thus provide a broad cross-section of how these widely discussed concepts might be understood. Arising from papers delivered at the conference Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe, held in Munich in April 2016, the volume draws together a wide selection of material ranging from texts and toponyms to maps and archaeological data, and it uses this diversity in method and material to explore the meaning of these terms in medieval Ireland, Wales, and Iceland. In doing so, it provides a broadly inclusive and yet carefully focused discussion of the inescapable and productive intertwining of landscape and myth.
This volume explores the intersection of landscape and myth in the context of north-western Atlantic Europe. From the landscapes of literature to the landscape as a lived environment, and from myths about supernatural beings to tales about the mythical roots of kingship, the contributions gathered here each develop their own take on the meanings behind ‘landscape’ and ‘myth’, and thus provide a broad cross-section of how these widely discussed concepts might be understood. Arising from papers delivered at the conference Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe, held in Munich in April 2016, the volume draws together a wide selection of material ranging from texts and toponyms to maps and archaeological data, and it uses this diversity in method and material to explore the meaning of these terms in medieval Ireland, Wales, and Iceland. In doing so, it provides a broadly inclusive and yet carefully focused discussion of the inescapable and productive intertwining of landscape and myth.
Introduction: 'Landscape', 'Myth', and the North-Western European Perspective - MATTHIAS EGELER Myth and Real-World Landscapes Spaces, Places and Liminality: Marking Out and Meeting the Dead and the Supernatural in Old Nordic Landscapes - TERRY GUNNELL Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscape in the Sagas of Icelanders - REINHARD HENNIG Landscape Meditations on Death: The Place Lore of the Hvanndalir in Northern Iceland - MATTHIAS EGELER Myth and the Creation of Landscape in Early Medieval Ireland - GREGORY TONER Codal and Eriu: Feeding the Land-Goddess - GRIGORY BONDARENKO with NINA ZHIVLOVA) Finn's Wilderness Place and Boundary Landforms in Medieval Ireland -ELIZABETH FITZPATRICK 'Here, Finn Take this and give him a lick of it': Two Place-lore Stories about Fi(o)nn Mac Cum(h)aill in Medieval Irish Literature and Modern Oral Tradition - TIZIANA SOVERINO The Melusine Legend and the Landscape in Insular and Continental Tradition - Gregory R. Darwin Myth and the Landscapes of Literature King Sverrir's Mythic Landscape - NICOLAS MEYLAN Mythologizing the Geographical Landscape: Religion and History in Imago Mundi, Image du Monde, and Delw y Byd - NATALIA PETROVSKAIA The Road Less Travelled: Cu Chulainn's Journey to Matrimony and the Dind?enchas of Tochmarc Emire - MARIE-LUISE THEUERKAUF 'If we settled in the forest...': Reflections on the Function of Wooded Spaces in Some Irish Texts - EDYTA LEHMANN
- Edited by Matthias Egeler
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