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Book SynopsisThis book sheds new light on the central role of the Grimms’ all too often neglected Deutsche Sagen (German Legends), published in 1816-1818 as a follow up to their famous collection of fairy tales. As the chapters in this book demonstrate, Deutsche Sagen, with its firmly nationalistic title, set in motion a cultural tsunami of folklore collection throughout Northern Europe from Ireland and Estonia, which focused initially on the collection of folk legends rather than fairy tales. Grimm Ripples focuses on the initial northward wave of collection between 1816 and 1870, and the letters, introductions and reviews associated with these collections which effectively demonstrate how those involved understood what was being collected. This approach offers important new insights into the key role played by Folkloristics in the Romantic Nationalistic movement of the early nineteenth century. Contributors are: Terry Gunnell, Joep Leerssen, Holger Ehrhardt, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Herleik Baklid, Ane Ohrvik, Line Esborg, Fredrik Skott, John Lindow, Éilís Ní Dhiubhne Almqvist, John Shaw, Jonathan Roper, Kim Simonsen, Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, Liina Lukas, Pertti Anttonen, Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, and Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch.
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations, Diagrams and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Terry Gunnell 1 Topo-narratives Joep Leerssen 2 The Grimm Brothers’ Deutsche Sagen: Collection Plan, Sources, Critiques, Reception Holger Ehrhardt 3 The Accidental Folklorist: Thiele’s Collection of Danish Folk Legends in Early Nineteenth-Century Denmark Timothy R. Tangherlini 4 “You Can Therefore Rightly See These Folk Legends as a Reflection of Your Own!” The Grimm Brothers and the Norwegian Collector of Folk Legends, Andreas Faye Herleik Baklid 5 Mapping the Knowledge Network of the Norwegian Folklore Collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in the Nineteenth Century Ane Ohrvik 6 Treue und Wahrheit: Asbjørnsen and Moe and the Scientification of Folklore in Norway Line Esborg 7 Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius and the Svenska sägner That Never Appeared Terry Gunnell and Fredrik Skott 8 George Stephens: An Unlikely Conduit John Lindow 9 Pioneers: Thomas Crofton Croker and the Brothers Grimm Eilís Ní Dhuibhne Almqvist 10 The Grimms, Scotland and “This New Science of ‘Storyology’” John Shaw 11 Considered Trifles: English Grimmians Jonathan Roper 12 The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries and V. U. Hammershaimb’s Collections of Faroese Folk Legends Kim Simonsen 13 Konrad Maurer: Cultural Conduit and Collector Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir 14 Jón Árnason and the Collection of Icelandic Folk Legends: Ripples, Flotsam, Nets and Reflections Terry Gunnell 15 The Grimms and Folklore Collection in Estonia in the Mid-nineteenth Century Liina Lukas 16 The Grimm Brothers and the Quest for Legends in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Folklore Studies Pertti Anttonen 17 Oskar Rancken, Swedish-Language Folklore Collection in Finland and the Grimm Ripples Ulrika Wolf-Knuts and Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch Bibliography Index
