Numerous medieval Icelandic sagas discuss men who have irregular phalli. While previous studies have attempted to understand the relationship between medieval Icelandic men and their irregular penises through a psychoanalytic lens, this article instead focuses on the intersection of disability theory and masculinity theory (known as “disabled masculinity”) to examine the cultural and social implications of having an irregular phallus in the medieval Icelandic world, which will be labeled as a “sexual disability.” As this study will reveal, these sexual disabilities were perhaps the most culturally disabling for men in the medieval Icelandic world because of the gender-specific significance of the penis and its impact on their perceived masculine performance.
History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia, Language and Literature
I denne artikkelen viser jeg hvordan kunnskapen om og oppfatningen av støpejernsovnenes varmeteknologi og brenselseffektivitet ble utviklet og formidlet gjennom en nittiårsperiode fra 1850 til 1940. Utviklingen av ovnene baserte seg på et behov og krav om billigst og mest effektiv varmeproduksjon. Med dagens krav om rentbrennende ovner er det interessant å se hvordan datidens kunnskap, både den vitenskapelige og den allmenne oppfatning, gjensidig påvirket ovnsutviklingen. Vitenskapelige artikler, rapporter, populærlitteratur, avisinnlegg, kataloger og patenter er brukt som kilder.
denne artikkelen undersøker jeg hvordan matkulturen i velstående norske husholdninger utviklet seg fra slutten av 1700-tallet til midten av 1800-tallet, gjennom en analyse av kokebøkene til Christine Storm Munch og Hanna Winsnes. Ved å analysere ingredienser, matlagingsmetoder og sosiale sammenhenger viser jeg i artikkelen både kontinuitet og endring i perioden. Sitroner og sukker, som tidligere var luksusvarer, ble gradvis mer tilgjengelige takket være forbedrede handelsforbindelser og økt import, noe som gjenspeiler større økonomiske og sosiale endringer. I artikkelen fremhever jeg hvordan global handel og lokale tilpasninger bidro til å forme norske kulinariske praksiser. Christine Storm Munchs kokebok, med sine mange referanser til eksotiske ingredienser, som sitroner og sukker, reflekterer en tidlig fase av globalisering, mens Hanna Winsnes’ kokebok viser en mer etablert bruk av disse ingrediensene og antyder en senere fase av integrasjon i hverdagsmaten. Ved å bruke mikrohistorie som metode knytter jeg i denne studien individuelle, kulinariske praksiser til større historiske utviklingstrekk og gir en dypere forståelse av hvordan globalisering og økonomisk vekst påvirket hverdagslivet i Norge før. I fremtidig forskning kan dette bli bygget videre på ved at historiske importdata blir inkludert og kvinners rolle i utviklingen av matkulturen blir sett nærmere på.
Indigenous art, aestheticisms, and other creative expressions represent a critical threat to settler colonial neoliberalism, working within, between, and beyond the parameters, definitions, and conventions of the Western art world. Using the concept of “Indigenous refusal” as a grounding framework, this article complicates the hegemonic relationship between settler fantasy and embodied Indigenous reality, exploring the ways that contemporary Indigenous artists Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe) and Jalvvi Niilas Holmberg (Sámi) foster Indigenous futurity through their artistic engagements with the presence and absence of language. Through a comparative analysis of Belmore’s 2013 performance piece Apparition and Holmberg’s second studio album, Luođik (2024), this paper argues that Belmore and Holmberg’s respective works map distinct geographies of refusal, exercising a sonic sovereignty in the service of disrupting the settler gaze. Building on previous decolonial scholarly work on the politics of refusal, reconciliation, and representation, this comparative approach makes obvious the thread of transnational Indigenous solidarity that links Belmore and Holmberg’s respective works together.
History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia, Language and Literature
The South Sami concept of dåajmijes vuekie is used to discuss a nuanced system of evaluative norms operating in Sami culture, past and present, in relation to objects, behavior, and activities. Where Western aesthetics may focus on surface appearance, dåajmijes vuekie emphasizes effective action in relation to practical needs, social interaction, and ethics. The authors suggest that evaluative norms associated with Sami traditional knowledge and activities can provide valuable insights for understanding not only Sami traditional life but also works of contemporary Sami artists and writers who draw on Sami cultural norms in conscious ways.
History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia, Language and Literature
Christian Oertel. 2016. The Cult of St Erik in Medieval Sweden. Veneration of a Royal Saint, Twelfth—Sixteenth Centuries. 398 pages. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-55507-2. eISBN: 978-2-503-56474-6.
History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia, Language and Literature
This article shows how three major voices of contemporary German literature – Rainald Goetz, Terézia Mora and Kathrin Röggla – try to deal with writing in times of a permanent discourse on crisis in the years since 2001. Because the thinking of crisis takes away the notion of future as possibility the texts of Goetz, Mora and Röggla focus on conflicts between the present and its pasts. Central for those stories is the figure of suicide that implies such a relation of time concepts. Thus, it can be shown how Goetz, Mora and Röggla develop a sense of a shift in the conceptualization of time that contemporary theorists like Mark Fisher or Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht are addressing in their texts as well.
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages, History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia
This article, winner of the 2022 Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award, explores the concept of postmemory in relation to Sweden’s cultural memory of World War II. Through an analysis of Göran Rosenberg’s memoir "Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz" (2012), translated as "A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz," this article investigates how the representation of postmigrant identity and belonging relates to revisionist historiography regarding Sweden’s positionality during World War II. Furthermore, this article illuminates how exploring the postmemory trauma of the children of Holocaust survivors is relevant to the current discourse in Sweden’s contemporary transcultural society.
Cet article, gagnant du Prix Marna Feldt de publication pour diplomé [graduate], explore le concept de post-mémoire dans la mémoire culturelle de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Suède. À travers une analyse du mémoire de Göran Rosenberg “Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz” (2012), au titre anglais “A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz” [Un court arrêt au retour d’Auschwitz], cet article examine comment la représentation de l’identité et de l’appartenance post-migratoires se rapportent à l’historiographie révisionnistesur la position de la Suède durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. De plus, cet article illumine comment l’exploration des traumatismes post-mémoriels des enfants de survivants de l’Holocauste est importante à l’heure actuelle dans la société transculturelle de Suède.
History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia, Language and Literature
In scientific text types the specific language configurations represent a register of language typicality which is regularly used in similar contexts of scientific discourse. It is obvious, that the appropriate knowledge about these structures is a condition for competent scientific outputs. The configured structures as specific patterns are manifested in different forms and functions both on the lexical and the textual level. The paper explains the theoretical premises for researching these structures and discusses the methodological potential of the frequencyoriented n-gram analysis as a challenging base for the qualitative analysis of linguistic data.
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages, History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia
This paper presents a description of the meaning of the Dutch word "even" and of its Czech equivalents excerpted from the multilingual parallel corpus InterCorp. It is based upon the analysis of more than 1.500 examples of the usage of "even" (as an adjective, adverb or a modal particle) in the Dutch literary texts, which were translated into Czech. The corpus makes it possible to conduct an analysis of the functioning of "even" in a much wider context than the dictionary equivalents. It also helps to better understand the differences and parallels in both the languages.
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages, History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia