Good Thoughts on Folklore and Mythology. Festschrift in Honour of Terry Gunnell

Introduction
The Editors

Terry Gunnell: A Prefatory Note
Andrew Wawn

Leikur Gotanna
Vilborg Davíðsdóttir

Scientific Societies and the Formation of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and His Honourable Memberships
Line Esborg, Ane Ohrvik

I skyggen av Peter Christen Asbjørnsen: En studie av norske sagnutgivelser på 1800-sallet
Arne Bugge Amundsen

Reconstruction of Rituals in Pre-Christian Scandinavian Religion: An Evaluation of Vilhelm Grønbech’s Ideas of the ‘Ritual Drama’
Jens Peter Schjødt

Entering History Through the Back Door: Þættir from the Cultural Afterlife of Finnur Magnússon
Simon Halink

‘A Very Jolly Lot of Fellows:’ More on the Visit of JF Campbell and GW Dasent to Iceland, 1861 and 1862
John Shaw

Reordering Thiele: Preliminary Results of LLM-Based Topic Modeling for Flexible Classification of Early Legend Collections
Timothy R. Tangherlini

The Folklore of Research and the Reality of Local Folklore
Éva Pócs

The Dead and Atmospheric Water
Mirjam Mencej

Pathy: The Magicality of Ritual Space
Anoop Vellani

Glæpur og refsing í sögum um álagabletti
Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, Jón Jónsson

(Super)Natural and (Non)Human Entanglements on Iceland’s Shores
Alice Bower, Kristinn Schram

Magic Practices and Beliefs in the Nowadays Lithuanian Village Communities
Lina B?gien?

Violent Supernatural Encounters in Contemporary Estonian Personal Experience Narratives
Reet Hiiemäe

A Man Turned into a Rock Giant: A Local Legend about Love, Sea and Metamorphosis from Vieste, Gargano
Vito Carrassi

The Legend about the Cormorants of Utrøst – An Everlasting Story?
Torunn Selberg

Sustainability Stories: On Narratives and Sustainability
Owe Ronström

Kva er trollskap? Nytt blikk på Kvam-segna og segnmetode
Eldar Heide

Water Trolls in Árneshreppur, Northern Strandir: A Preliminary Map and Catalogue
Matthias Egeler

Ókindarkvæði: B-gerð
Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir

Tröllasögur: Fjögur þemu
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir

Borrowing the Big Kettle: A Scandinavian Folk Legend
Bengt af Klintberg

The Incubus, the Elves and the Fallen Angels: Nature-Spirits and Nightmares
Louise S. Milne

The Vet?lapañcavi??ati Frame Tale and its Folklore Foundation
Nemanja Radulovi?

The Night of Ancient Lights: From Invention to Festivalisation
Mare Kõiva, Andres Kuperjanov

Boys’ Chants at Oidhche Challainn (New Year’s Eve) on Berneray in the Outer Hebrides
Emily Lyle

Memory in Action: Narration, Communication and the Repertoire of a Welsh Tradition-Bearer
Robin Gwyndaf

Time Spirals in Slovenian Short Folklore Forms
Saša Babi?

Between Mythology and History: Romantic Legends of Pagan Princesses
Joep Leerssen

Listrænar ballöður: Frá hefðbundnum sagnadönsum til höfundaverka 18. og 19. aldar
Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson

Þegar fornritin skoruðu hasarblöðin á hólm: (Ofur)hetjumyndir Halldórs Péturssonar
Jón Karl Helgason

Lived Legend and the Many Victories of the Epic of Defeat
Carl Lindahl

Border Area People and Their Contacts Across the Long Norwegian/Swedish National Border
Anders Gustavsson

Narrative Recrafting: Performing Heartbreak on the Museum Stage
Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch, Hanne Pico Larsen

On the Relations of Truth and Humor
Elliott Oring

Sacred Spaces In-Between Seriousness and Fun: A Comment on the Marcolf-Tradition
Pernille Hermann

Who Was Lucia? The Lucia Figure in Swedish Folklore
Tommy Kuusela

Aspects of Irish and Scandinavian Hearth Protocols and Associated Invocations
Séamas Ó Catháin

St John’s Prologue in Church Ritual and Irish Tradition
Pádraig Ó Héalaí

Articulating Strong Words and the Necessity of Accompanying Action: Charms, Ritual Agents and Performance
Catharina Raudvere

Drinking Danger and ‘Giving Birth’ to Snakes in Guðmundar Saga D (and Beyond)
Davide Ermacora

Why Folklorists Should Read Saints’ Lives (and Hagiographers Should Read Folklore)
Margaret Cormack