Hasil untuk "History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia"

William Sem Fure

Wilken Engelbrecht

Theresia Mitterer

Thomas A. DuBois

The enigmatic life of Finnish-Canadian pioneer Tom (Damianus) Sukanen (1878-1943) is discussed in connection with his steamship Sontiainen, today preserved at the Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum, outside of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The article examines details of Sukanen's life and the wide array of plays, novels, films, and musicals that have been made about him since the 1970s. The question of representing heritage through preserved artifacts and museums is explored.

Katelin Marit Parsons

The manuscript as narrator in Icelandic children’s novel Bál tímans (2022) belongs to a literary tradition of sentient object narrators who document the domestic spaces in which they circulate. Bál tímans shifts the reader’s focus to normally invisible manuscript owners and users, including women and children, bringing attention to disparities in access created through archive-building activities. In domestic settings, Möðruvallabók is accessible to a broad segment of the Icelandic population through practices of social reading, women’s book ownership, and home education. In the archive, human-manuscript interactions are restricted to a narrow and initially male-only elite. While tensions between preservation and access are resolved when the codex is exhibited in a museum space where it can share its stories with a wider audience, Bál tímans examines what can be lost by bringing cultural objects into archival spaces.

Frank Meyer

Sammendrag Lokalhistorie skrives som regel uten noen eller med lite informasjon om stedets spesielle lydbilde. Mulige årsaker til dette kan være at denne informasjonen vurderes som irrelevant, sjølsagt og uforanderlig, eller at en ikke vet hvordan et lydbilde kan beskrives. I denne artikkelen argumenteres det for at lydbildet er en viktig sanselig stedserfaring som ikke er sjølsagt eller uforanderlig. Dette demonstreres ved å kontrastere de fundamentalt forskjellige lydlandskapene eller klanguniversene i to ellers kommensurable norske lokalsamfunn (Florø og Lillehammer). Videre presenterer artikkelen modeller og begrep fra to sentrale lydteoretikere og -praktikere, Raymond Murray Schafer og Bernie Krause, som viser hvor lett og givende det kan være å beskrive lokale lydunivers. Artikkelen tar særlig sikte på å ta i bruk Bernie Krauses holistiske forestilling om lydøkologi, det vil si at et lokalt lydbilde er en integrert helhet av geofoni, biofoni og antropofoni. Et sentralt formål med artikkelen er å (1) kort presentere lydteoretikeren og -praktikeren Bernie Krauses arbeid, som er lite kjent i Norden, (2) plassere ham i forhold til andre lydteoretikere og -praktikere, særlig Raymond Murray Schafer, og (3) demonstrere det heuristiske potensialet i Krauses teori ved å kontrastere de fundamentalt forskjellige lydlandskapene i to ellers kommensurable norske lokalsamfunn (Florø og Lillehammer).

This collaborative collection provides fresh perspectives on Christianity and the conduct of war in medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia, investigating the intersection between religion, culture, and warfare in territories that were only integrated into Christendom in the Central Middle Ages. The contributors analyze cultures that lay outside Charlemagne's limes and the frontiers of the Byzantine Empire, to consider a region stretching from the Balkans to the Baltic and Scandinavia. The volume considers clerics as military leaders and propagandists, the role of Christian ritual and doctrine in warfare, and the adaptation and transformation of indigenous military cultures. It uncovers new information on perceptions of war and analyzes how local practices were incorporated into clerical narratives, enabling the reader to achieve a complete understanding of the period.

Jürgen Eder

Knut Grove

Samandrag Frå 1870-åra vart ei rekke velforeningar til i kommunane rundt hovudstaden. Fram til andre verdskrig speler vella ei viktig rolle i måten desse landkommunane vert til forstadskommunar. Vella var sentrale i middelklassen si modernisering av desse forstadene ved hovudstaden der etableringa av nye villastrøk var eit særleg tydeleg trekk. Artikkelen forklarer og analyser utviklinga i desse nye forstadskommunane, og kvifor det var her vella fekk størst utbreiing og innverknad i denne perioden. Samtidig blir det vist korleis det også blei etablert velforeningar utanfor dei typiske middelklassestrøka, med eit sterkare bygde- eller arbeidarpreg. Innslaga av velforeningar med slike trekk kan vera med å forklara at vella etter andre verdskrig kunne utvikla seg til ein type forening og ei rørsle som i dag famner over foreningar over heile landet, i tillegg til forstadene i så vel bygd som i by.

Marita von Weissenberg

Paulina Horbowicz, Marta Olga Janik

This paper deals with the topic of lexical modality in Norwegian as a second language. Basing on data obtained from the ASK-corpus – The Norwegian Language Learner Corpus containing second language texts written in a language examination, the authors analyse the use of two modal particles, jo and nok, by three groups of Norwegian as a second language writers: English, Polish and German. The focus of the study is on analysing lexical patterns for co-occurrence of the modal particles. The patterns used by the learners are compared with the ones used by the native speakers of Norwegian and between the learner groups. The discrepancies found in the data are discussed within the broader framework of second language development and second language writing. The findings suggest that the second language writers' use of modal particles is influenced by several factors, such as general interlanguage tendencies, transfer from the learners' first languages and the perception of textual norms.

Yngve Nilsen

Jürgen Eder

Golo Mann isn't connected with the Bohemian-Czech history only by his biography as an German exiled author but also as an historian. In his fundamental and outstanding biography "Wallenstein" he realized a life-long fascination and occupation with this character. But this work, published in 1969, is not just a journey into the past of the Great European War with its outbreak at Bílá Hora, but with a contemporary view on country and politics of Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 1960s. Golo Mann opened the bohemian landscape of the 17th century for perspectives afterwards, up to his and the countries present during the "Prague Spring". History and Contemporary History cross each other and give an image for the meaning of continuity.

Øyvind Ravna

Abstract The property history and constitutional affiliation of Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway, differs significantly from that of the rest of the country, insofar as a dominant conception up to the present time has been that the government has been the owner of Finnmark «from the earliest times». Despite significant research during the last half decade, there is still a prevailing opinion that private ownership in Finnmark originated through a normative act of the Government in Copenhagen in 1775. The theme of this article is to study the property history of Finnmark with an aim to examine the existence of private property independently of the government land acts. The article argues that new research and sources not previously consulted, which are relevant for the property history of Finnmark, must be used to a greater extent in the legal clarification process in Finnmark. Although state ownership has been questioned for a long period, the arguments for the existence of private property that is not derived from state ownership have encountered an insurmountable threshold due to the absence of documentation. Through use of sources previously not applied in a property law context, the article sheds new light on the property history of Finnmark.

Torkel Jansson

Michal Kunc

The German language underwent many stages of development in the twentieth century. One of the most interesting was the language of the Third Reich. This twelve-year period saw many changes in the German lexicon, most of all in the semantic fields "Führer", "race", and "the language of politics." This article focuses on the vocabulary used in textbooks for both Czech and German schools. The lexicons of these textbooks are compared and classified by their key words.

Otto Martin Christensen

The author examines the relationship between the aesthetics of Romanticism and theories developed within the 20th century structuralist tradition. In the first part of the article he shows that there are affinities between the broad Romantic concept of the unifying symbol and the way linguistic entities are considered as self-contained units within certain theories of classical structuralism. In the last part he shows how poststructuralism tends to focus on rhetorical devices that display disruption rather than integration and unity, theorists such as Paul de Man taking a philosophical stance that amplifies the rupture between man – as a creature that allegedly relates to reality exclusively through linguistic means – and a multifaceted world that, according to the author, deserves better.

Therese Alvik

The article refers to Norway during World War II. The Norwegian police have received criticism for their active role regarding the arrests of Jews who were living in Norway. In 2012, police director Odd Reidar Humlegård offered a public apology on behalf of the police. Police Administration employees accounted for a diverse group and there are examples of police officers who tried to avert the arrests. This theme is illustrated to clarify further the situation in a specific Norwegian city and for one Jewish family

Charles Bolduc

ABSTRACT: This article aims to show that Ingmar Bergman’s Persona has played an important role in the philosophical thought of Gilles Deleuze. On the one hand, the article emphasizes that experiencing this film allowed Deleuze to construct the concept of « image-affection, » thereby helping him to reconnect with a problematic specific to Henri Bergson, in spite of the latter’s virulent condemnation of cinema. On the other hand, this article establishes a necessary connection between the creation of this concept and the film by foregrounding the inadequacies of phenomenological and Sartrian existentialist approaches which restricted themselves to locating in Persona an illustration of their key concepts, concepts which finally proved impossible to maintain in view of the film’s culminating scene in which the faces, in close-up, of the two protagonists are superimposed.

Eleonora Jeřábková