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"Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream." Margaret Atwood, "True North"
In this interdisciplinary collection, sixteen scholars from twelve countries explore the notion of the North as a realm of the supernatural. This region has long been associated with sorcerous inhabitants, mythical tribes, metaphysical forces of good and evil, and a range of supernatural qualities. It was both the sacred abode of the gods and a feared source of menacing invaders and otherworldly beings. Whether from the perspective of traditional Jewish lore or of contemporary black metal music, few motifs in European cultural history show such longevity and broad appeal.
Contributors: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Angela Byrne, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker, Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Silvije Habulinec, Erica Hill, Jay Johnston, Maria Kasyanova, Jan Leichsenring, Shane McCorristine, Jennifer E. Michaels, Ya'acov Sarig, Rudolf Simek, Athanasios Votsis, Brian Walter
Contents
Introduction // Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, and Stefan Donecker
PART I | ANCIENT ROOTS / The Menace and the Divine
1 In Jewish Lore, Not Only Evil Descends From the North // Ya'acov Sarig
2 The Realm of the North in Ancient Greek Proverbs // Maria Kasyanova
3 The Ancient Greek Myth of Hyperborea
Its Supernatural Aspects and Frameworks of Meaning // Athanasios Votsis
PART II | FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD / The Monstrous and the Demonic
4 Monstra septentrionalia
Supernatural Monsters of the Far North in Medieval Lore // Rudolf Simek
5 From Eiríkr the Red to Trolls in the Wilderness 77
The Development of Supernatural Greenland in the Old Norse Sagas // Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
6 Winter's Flesh
Septentrio and the Monstrous Female Body in Late Medieval
Medicine and Theology // Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
7 The Supernatural Image of Iceland in Johannes Kepler's Somnium (1634) // Stefan Donecker
PART III | THE NINETEENTH CENTURY / The Scientific and the Spiritual
8 Imagining the Celtic North
Science and Romanticism on the Fringes of Britain // Angel Byrne
9 Mesmerism and Victorian Arctic Exploration // Shane McCorristine
10 Myths of Iceland and Mount Hekla and their Deconstruction
Ida Pfeiffer's Journey to Iceland // Jennifer E. MichaelS
11 Moon Men and Inland Dwellers
The Dissemination of Greenlandic Legends and Myths in the Writings of
Hinrich Rink and Knud Rasmussen // Silvije Habulinec
PART IV | CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES / The Desire for a Supernatural North
12 A Distant Northern Land
Nabokov's Zembla and Aesthetic Bliss // Brian Walter
13 The Idea of North
Intertextuality and Environmentalism in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass // Danielle Marie Cudmore
14 The Elf in Self
The Influence of Northern Mythology and Fauna on Contemporary Spiritual Subcultures // Jay Johnston
15 A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Semiotic Strategies of Constructing the Supernatural North in Music Subcultures // Jan Leichsenring
16 Men, Women, and Shamans
Daily Ritual Practice in the Supernatural North // Erica Hill
Contributors 293
Index 299
