Titlebook: Romantic Norths; Anglo-Nordic Exchang Cian Duffy Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Sweden.Nationalism.Scandina

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,‘The North’ and ‘the East’: The Odin Migration Theory,rse pantheon. As Rix observes, there had been, since the Middle Ages, a persistent attempt to interpret Odin as an historical figure from Asia who conquered the north of Europe, bringing with him a new language and the art of poetry. Rix’s account of how English writers took seriously the Odin migra

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,‘These children of nature’: Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Danish Imaginings of Greenland,anders: A Story] (1842), by the Danish romantic writer Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789-1862), which became one of the most influential nineteenth-century imaginings of Greenland and a key milestone in the cultural history of the relationship between Denmark and Greenland. Martinsen’s essay examines

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,Locating Norway in ‘the North’: the Cultural Geography of Norway in Strickland’s ‘Arthur Ridley; oror, a Voyage to Norway’ (1826), by Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), and ‘Elverh?i’ (1845), by Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), one of the sources for Ibsen’s . (1876). Her purpose is not to uncover any genetic relationship between the narratives but rather to show how the different processes of cul

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,A ‘remote and cheerless possession’: Early Nineteenth-Century British Imaginings of Newfoundland,er the island simultaneously a desolate outpost of ‘the North’ and an integral part of the British imperial world. Such representations reveal a tension, she suggests, in the increasingly crystallised British romantic-period discourse about ‘the North’. The problem with Newfoundland was that it coul

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,Coda: Comparing the Literature of ‘the North’ – William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen,of comparative literature as an academic discipline and considers the challenges involved in the study of influence and exchange between cultures and nations. The possibility of an influence on William Worsdworth’s ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ by the Danish romantic poet Jens Baggesen provides

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