Folklore and landscape are deeply interconnected. Landscapes embody stories, rituals, material culture, and historical events through a variety of cultural practices and forms that contribute to place-making, shape collective identities, and influence heritage and conservation processes. The contributions to the themed issue of Arv 2025 explore how memory and belief are articulated in placelore. Through case studies of both physical and narrated landscapes, the volume presents analysis of the complex interplay between culture and natural environments, drawing on material from the Nordic and Baltic regions. The volume also includes independent research articles and book reviews.
In this issue:
Egil Asprem and Sebastian Casinge (SWEDEN): The Trickster and the Witch; Randi Hege Skjelmo and Liv Helene Willumsen (NORWAY): The Money Chest Layby his Head; Ellen Alm (NORWAY): The Quantitative Scope of Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian Bohuslen 1587-1658; Egil Bakka (NORWAY): Migrating with Movement Expressions; Anders Gustavsson (SWEDEN): The Consequences of Covid19 Pandemic
Ingrid Åkesson: Essential Narrative Motifs? Gender Power Structures, Categorization of Traditional Ballads and the Stubbornness of Paradigms Katarzyna Anna Kapitan: From Oral Prosimetrum to Viking Metal Felix Lummer: Solitary Colossi and Not-So-Small Men: A Study of the Effect of Translation on the Old Norse Supernatural Concept of the jotnar in the Translated riddarasogur Eija Stark: Vernacular Economics and Stories of Fights: Finnish Folktales through the Lens of the Civilization Process Gösta Arvastson: When the Dog Eats Grass, There Will Be Rain: Eva Wigström and Weather Signs Lotte Tarkka: Cosmogony in Vernacular Imagination and Beyond: Textualization of Finnic Origin Myths in the Kalevala Alf Arvidsson: Representations of a Twentieth-Century Swedish Storyteller and His Repertoire Júlíana Th. Magnúsdóttir: Three Women of Iceland and the Stories They Told
About the Journal
ARV means heritage. ARV. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore presents our mental heritage, folklore, as the foundation of our culture, our patterns of interaction and our world view. Folklore, i.e. popular poetry, belief and custom, is an important identity factor for every nation in historical as well as recent times. The journal’s target readership is academics, teachers and local historians.
Arv is published by The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture.
ARV. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore | ISSN (Online) 2002-4185 | ISSN (Print) 0066-8176
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