Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century

Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, cand. mag. (1990), University of Iceland, is a researcher at the Reykjavik Academy. He has taught at the University of Kiel and the University of Iceland. He has published extensively on the reception of Old Norse literature in later periods.. Clarence E. Glad, Ph.D. (1992), Brown University, is a researcher at the Reykjavik Academy. He has published monographs and articles on nineteenth century Icelandic cultural nationalism and on the Pauline heritage in Early Christianity, including Paul and Philodemus (Brill, 1995).

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Gylfi Gunnlaugsson



1 Whose Cultural Heritage?

Icelandic Philological Research and Its Repercussions before 1830

 Gylfi Gunnlaugsson

2 “Sacred Isle! Mightiest Temple of Remembrance!”

Rasmus Rask, Iceland and the Icelandic Language

 Alderik H. Blom

3 Müller’s Method

The Resurrection of Danish Saga Translations

 Annette Lassen

4 Icelandic-Danish Cooperation and Disputes 1816–1858

 Clarence E. Glad

5 Sveinbjörn Egilsson

Philologist, Translator and Teacher

 Clarence E. Glad

6 Rudolf Keyser and His Use of Old Norse Texts in the Norwegian National Initiative

 Jon Gunnar Jørgensen

7 Jón Sigurðsson

A Philologist Captive in the Image of a National Hero

 Clarence E. Glad

8 The Invigorating Childhood Memories of the North

On Grímur Thomsen’s Scholarly Work and Poetry

 Gylfi Gunnlaugsson

9 National Liberty and Its Shortcomings

Benedikt Gröndal’s De studiis classicis and the Dichotomizing of Icelandic and French Identities

 Hjalti Snær Ægisson

10 Guðbrandur Vigfússon

An Icelandic Philologist in Oxford

 Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir

11 Finnur Jónsson, Editor of Everything

 Matthew James Driscoll

12 Between Hekla and Dofrafjall

Björn M. Ólsen, Finnur Jónsson and the Origins of the Eddic Poems

 Simon Halink



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