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The Folk-stories of Iceland (Paperback)
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The Folk-stories of Iceland (Paperback)
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Loot Price R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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This book contains a detailed account of the various types of
Icelandic folk-story, their likely origins and sources, the
folk-beliefs they represent, and their meanings. In Iceland, people
do not compose verse just to comfort themselves; they worship
poetry and believe in it. In poetry is a power which rules men's
lives and health, governs wind and sea. Icelanders have faith in
hymns and sacred poems too, because of their content. They also
have faith in secular poetry composed by themselves, believing it
to be no less able to move mountains than religious faith is. By
this belief in their own culture, they transfer it into the realm
of mythology, and the glow of the super-human is shed over it.
Whatever may have been their origin, the folk-stories of Iceland
come to mirror the people's life and character, and in the period
when the idea gained ground that all power comes from the people,
their poetry and lore became sacred things that were revered and
looked to as a potential source of strength. Icelandic folk-stories
were similarly an important element in the Icelanders' struggle for
national and cultural integrity in the nineteenth century. They
were more truly Icelandic than anything else worthy of the name.
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