‎Heaney, Seamus‎
‎North‎

‎What is North? Imagining the North from Ancient Times to the Present Day‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 408 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 11 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503585024.‎

‎Summary The British Isles, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, and Eastern Canada, alongside many small islands, form a broken bridge across the northern extremities of the Atlantic Ocean. This 'North Atlantic World' is a heterogeneous but culturally intertwined area, ideally suited to the fostering of an interest in all things northern by its people. For the storytellers and writers of the past, each more northerly land was far enough away that it could seem fabulous and even otherworldly, while still being just close enough for myths and travellers' tales to accrue. This book charts attitudes to the North in the North Atlantic World from the time of the earliest extant sources until the present day. The varied papers within consider a number of key questions which have arisen repeatedly over the centuries: 'where is the North located?', 'what are its characteristics?', and 'who, or what lives there?'. They do so from many angles, considering numerous locations and an immense span of time. All are united by their engagement with the North Atlantic World's relationship with the North. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - OIS N PLUMB, ALEXANDRA SANMARK, AND DONNA HEDDLE 'Upon the Utmost Corners of the Warld'. Orkney in Early Maps and Literature - DONNA HEDDLE 'Beyond the Range of Human Exploration'. Cormac and the 'North' in the Seventh Century - OIS N PLUMB The Old North in Medieval Wales - MARGED HAYCOCK The Future Is East. Ideological Mapping in the V nland Sagas - JOHN MOFFATT Moulding One Another. Grettir and the Landscape - EDUARDO RAMOS The Worlds in Gr mnism l. Norse and Medieval Christian Understandings of Space - VITTORIO MATTIOLI The Literary Landscape of Old Norse Poetry - AGNETA NEY S mi Magic and Rituals from Historia Norwegie to Johannes Schefferus, c. 1150-1680 - ELLEN ALM AND RUNE BLIX HAGEN On Solid Ground. Learning from the Lore of Imagined Lands - KARIN MURRAY-BERGQUIST Maeshowe, Orkahaugr. The Names of Orkney's Great Burial Mound as Nodes in a Heteroglossic Web of Meaning-Making - RAGNHILD LJOSLAND Rites, Runes, and Maeshowe. Northern Landscapes and Lived Belief - JAY JOHNSTON Ballantyne 'on the Rocks'. The Arctic as Adventure-Arena - JOCHEN PETZOLD Self-Images of Icelanders and their Attitude towards Greenland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - SUMARLI I R. SLEIFSSON Literary Encounters with the Arctic Landscape. Among Nordic Explorers and Trappers - HENNING HOWLID W RP Jessie Saxby and Viking Boys. Concepts of the North in Boys' Own Fiction - LYNN POWELL 'Neath the Midnight Sun'. Imagining the Canadian North through School Readers - CLAIRE SMERDON The Image of the North as the Home of Evil in English Children's Books - ANNA HEI A P LSD TTIR Northernity. Inventing the North in Fantasy Literature - JIM CLARKE Narrating Norden. Legacies, Links, and Landscape and their Symbolic Significance for Nordic Identity and Community Read through Nordic Noir Crime Fiction - JOHN W. DYCE Reinventing Agnes. The Role of Icelandic Landscape, Nature, and Seasons in Hannah Kent's Speculative Biography Burial Rites - INGIBJ RG G STSD TTIR‎

‎Myths and Magic in the Medieval Far North. Realities and Representations of a Region on the Edge of Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 280 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 7 col., 2 maps color, Languages: English, Latin, Old Norse. ISBN 9782503588230.‎

‎Summary The history of the Far North is tinged by dark fantasies. A remote location, harsh climate, a boundless and often mountainous wasteland, complex ethnic composition, and strange ways of life: all contributed to how the edge of Europe was misunderstood by outsiders. Since ancient times, the North has been considered as a place that exuded evil: it was the end of the world, the abode of monsters and supernatural beings, of magicians and sorcerers. It was Europe's last bastion of recalcitrant paganism. Many weird tales of the North even came from within the region itself, and when newly literate Scandinavians began to re-work their oral traditions into written form after 1100 AD, these myths of their past underlay newer legends and stories serving to support the development to Christian national monarchies. The essays in this volume engage closely with these stories, questioning how and why such traditions developed, and exploring their meaning. Through this approach, the volume also examines how historiographical traditions were shaped by authors pursuing agendas of nation-building and Christianization, at the same time that myths surrounding and originating among the multi-ethnic populations of the Far North continued to dominate the perception of the region and its people, and to define their place in Norwegian medieval history. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 'Bearded Women and Sea Monsters: European Representations of the Far North in the Early and High Middle Ages' - MIRIAM TVEIT Myth, Magic and Rituals in the Nordic World 'On the View of "the Other" - Abroad and At Home: The Geography and Peoples of the Far North, according to Historia Norwegiae' - LARS IVAR HANSEN 'The Ice Giant Cometh: The Far North in the Old Norse-Icelandic Sagas' - ELEANOR ROSAMUND BARRACLOUGH 'Fishermen in Trouble - Gr mnism l and Elf Islands in Northern Norway' - PETTER SNEKKESTAD 'S mi Myths and Medieval Heritage' - MARTE SPANGEN '"I Hurl the Spirits of Gandul". Pleasure, Jealousy and Magic: The Witchcraft Trial of Ragnhild Tregagaas in 1325' - RUNE BLIX HAGEN 'The Meaning of Ale in the North: From Ale Rituals to Ale as a Subject in Political Conflicts' - KAROLINE KJESRUD Myths and Representations in the Political Consolidation of the North 'The Origins of Political Organization in the Far North? The Historical and Material Remains of Finnm rk, H logaland and the Mythical Om ' - YASSIN KAROLIUSSEN 'Norwegian or Northern: The Construction and Mythography of H leygr Identity, c. 800-1050' - BEN ALLPORT 'The Formation of a Norwegian Kingdom: A Northern Counter-Narrative?' - RICHARD HOLT 'Approaches to Mythologized "Others" in Norwegian Expansion to the North' - STEFAN FIGENSCHOW‎

‎The Danish Journalists’ Tour of the North American Defense Command 10th July – 12th August. - [THE DANISH JOURNALISTS' TOUR OF THE ""NORTH AMERICAN DEFENSE COMMAND"" 10TH JULY – 12TH AUGUST]‎

‎(USA), The North American Defense Command, 1960. Elephant Folio (765 x 515 mm). Large collection of photos with accompanying commentaries, in the custom made blue binding with gilt lettering to front board. 137 original monochrome photos (measuring 255 x 200 mm) pasted on to 40 leaves of paper documenting a month long trip to document the US Air Defense System from Copenhagen to New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and, the main focus of the trip, Thule and Station Nord in the North of Greenland. Also inserted are two formal signed letters to chief editor of the Danish newspaper Fyns Tidende, Knud Madsen, 1) from Val Peterson, American Ambassador to Denmark, 2) from Laurence S. Kuter, U.S. Air Force general and Commander in Chief of NORAD. Both letters are thanking Knud for his time, for their close working relationship and for his understanding. Light wear to extremities and paper slightly browned in margin but otherwise in fine condition and all photos well preserved.‎

‎Exceedingly rare photo album - curated by the North American Defense Command with personal signed letters by Val Peterson, American Ambassador to Denmark and Laurence S. Kuter, U.S. Air Force general and Commander in Chief of NORAD - depicting the Danish journalists' tour of the North American Defense Command in the summer of 1960. The album is of the utmost scarcity and was only presented to a select few of the participants of the tour. The present collection is a testament to one of the most controversial and disputed chapters in the Danish-North American relationship, namely that of Camp Century on Greenland" this includes installation of a portable nuclear reactor, the first of its kind, and eventually the creation of a vast network of nuclear missile launch sites – information only declassified in 1996. Furthermore, it is a fine example of US-military Cold War propaganda and it sought to influence the public opinion in allied countries. In 1951, the United States and Denmark - both founding members of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) - signed the Defense of Greenland Agreement. The treaty was intended “to negotiate arrangements under which armed forces of the parties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization may make use of facilities in Greenland in defense of Greenland and the rest of the North Atlantic Treaty area.” More simply put, the agreement allowed the United States to build military bases in Greenland. Denmark and the US had signed a formal agreement granting America the right to maintain military bases in Greenland, but only in strictly defined areas, such as Thule Air Base in Northwest Greenland. They still needed approval from the Danish authorities for all activities outside these defence areas. In 1957, without informing the Danish Parliament, the Danish Prime Minister H. C. Hansen gave the Americans permission to store nuclear weapons at Thule AB. When the US Army constructed Camp Century, complete with its own transportable nuclear reactor, the Danish Government found itself in a tight corner. As news about Camp Century spread due to the army’s publicity campaign, the Danish authorities were forced to explain that there were no nukes in Greenland. The Danes had to either give in entirely to the American requests to deploy various nuclear weapons in Greenland, or take a firmer stand against the Americans. Denmark opted for the second solution. In recognition of the unfavourable public climate in Denmark, the US military issued a press campaign to provide better understanding of the need for military bases in the Artic. This was primarily done by inviting chief editors from the major Danish newspapers on a month long trip to the US as is evident from the present photos, no expenses were spared. As ambassador Val Peterson wrote to Danish chief editor Knud Madsen in the accompanying letter:“From personal conversations with several participants in your tour, and from articles about the trip which already have appeared in the Danish press, I know that the various sponsoring agencies have done their utmost to make your visit instructive as well as pleasant. Above all, I am happy that you have had an opportunity to gain an insight in the vast effort made the the United States to safeguard the security of the free world and to maintain the peace, in close and cordial cooperation with our friends and Allies, Denmark prominently among them” And General Laurence S. Kuter: “We were delighted to have an opportunity to explain the important segments of our defense system to you – the NORAD Story. Denmark will continue to play a very important role in North American’s air and aerospace defenses in permitting important detection devices to be located in Greenland. Denmark is the only continental NATO power which provides such land-basing opportunity, which is essential for North America’s surveillance of the polar approach route. We hope, as a result of your visit, we now have a closer working relationship and understanding.” (From the accompanying letter). Over the next decade, the American military built three air bases in Greenland: Narssarsuaq, Sondestrom, and Thule. In context of the Cold War, these bases provided a refueling point and a base of operations for intermediate-range strategic bombers. Additionally, the United States deployed radar stations in Greenland to maintain a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) and a Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, which would give the United States advance warning of a Soviet nuclear attack. The Thule Air Base is the only of the three which is still operational today. Located less than 1,000 miles from the North Pole, it is the U.S. Air Force’s northernmost base. Construction on Camp Century began in June 1959 and was completed by October 1960. Army engineers first had to build a three mile road to bring the 6,000 tons of supplies it would require to build the $8 million facility. Most of the heavy equipment, including vehicles, were brought by bobsleds known as “heavy swings” which had a maximum speed of two miles per hour, making it a 70 hour trip from the Thule Air Base. The camp itself was not a secret. Officially, it was built for scientific purposes under the auspices of the Army Polar Research and Development Center. The Army even produced a short film promoting Camp Century as a “remote research community.” The facility did see some significant scientific discoveries, such as some of the first studies of ice cores, revealing geological secrets going back 100,000 years. Science, however was not the primary purpose of Camp Century. The facility was built primarily as a test for a military operation involving nuclear missiles. The U.S. Army continued to operate Camp Century in a limited capacity until 1966. Its tunnels quickly collapsed, and today the facility is unreachable, buried under a thick layer of ice. Project Iceworm remained a closely guarded secret until 1997, when the Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI) reported Camp Century’s military ambitions. ‎

‎Rostov-on-Don North Caucasus Regional Planning Commission. North Caucasus Regio‎

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‎Pre-Christian Religions of the North. Research and Reception, Volume II: From c. 1830 to the Present‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xxiii + 635 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:9 b/w, 10 col., 4 tables b/w., 2 Musical Examples, Languages: English, Old Norse. ISBN 9782503568805.‎

‎Summary Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European - and later contemporary - society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of Christianity, which have been the subject of a huge range of popular and scholarly theories, interpretations, and uses. Indeed, the pre-Christian religions of the North have exerted a phenomenal influence on modern culture, appearing in everything from the names of days of the week to Hollywood blockbusters. Scholarly treatments have been hardly less varied. Theories - from the Middles Ages until today - have depicted these pre-Christian religious systems as dangerous illusions, the works of Satan, representatives of a lost proto-Indo-European religious culture, a form of 'natural' religion, and even as a system non-indigenous in origin, derived from cultures outside Europe. The Research and Reception strand of the Pre-Christian Religions of the North project establishes a definitive survey of the current and historical uses and interpretations of pre-Christian mythology and religious material, tracing the many ways in which people both within and outside Scandinavia have understood and been influenced by these religions, from the Christian Middle Ages to contemporary media of all kinds. The previous volume (I) traced the reception down to the early nineteenth century, while the present volume (II) takes up the story from c. 1830 down to the present day and the burgeoning of interest across a diversity of new as well as old media. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Abbreviations for Volume II The Contributors Introduction to Volume II - MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS Part 1 The Later Grundtvig 1.1 N. F. S. Grundtvig's Use of Norse Mythology (1815-72) and its Aftermath - FLEMMING LUNDGREEN-NIELSEN Part 2 The Influence of Cultural Milieu on the European Reception 2.1 Germany 1650-1860 - CHRISTINA LEE 2.2 Finns, S mi and Swedes - THOMAS A. DUBOIS Part 3 Studies of Norse Myth and Religion in the Nineteenth Century 3.1 The Character of the New, Comparative Scholarship - MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS 3.2 The Nineteenth-Century Emergence of Religionswissenschaft and its Impact on the study of the pre-Christian Religions of the North - BERNHARD MAIER 3.3 The Heavenly Mountains of Asia: Old Norse Religion and Comparative Religion - ANNETTE LASSEN 3.4 The Comparative Study of Celtic and Nordic Religions - BERNHARD MAIER 3.5 Nordic, Germanic, German: Jacob Grimm and the German Appropriation of Old Norse Religion and Myth - SIMON HALINK 3.6 The Rise of Folklore Studies - JOHN LINDOW Part 4 The Influence of Old Norse Myth on Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 4.1 Wagner, the Ring and its influence - EDWARD HAYMES 4.2 Scandinavian Myths in Nineteenth-century Opera and Choral Music - BARBARA EICHNER 4.3 The Music of J n Leifs - FLORIAN HEESCH Part 5 The Reception in Theatre and Performance 5.1 Theatre and Performance (1830-2012) - TERRY GUNNELL AND SVEIN EINARSSON Part 6 The Reception in Literature 6.1.1 Literary Modernism and Old Norse Myth - KATJA SCHULZ 6.1.2 Old Norse myth in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake CHRISTOPHER BLACK 6.2 Old Norse Mythology in Anglophone Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1940 - RANDI ELDEVIK 6.3.1 Norse Medievalism in Children's Literature in English - DAVID CLARK 6.3.2 Norse Mythology in Nordic Children's Literature 1970-2012 - ANNE-KARI SKARDHAMAR Part 7 The Reception in Mass Culture 7.1 Nordic Gods and Popular Culture - J N KARL HELGASON Part 8 The Reception in Modern and Contemporary Art 8.1 Norse Myths in the Visual Arts of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Short Catalogue Raisonn - SARAH TIMME Part 9 The Role of the pre-Christian Religions of the North in Modern National, Political and Religious Movements 9.1 Old Norse Mythology and Heroic Legend in Politics, Ideology and Propaganda - JULIA ZERNACK 9.2 Germanic Neopaganism - STEFANIE VON SCHNURBEIN Part 10 Modern Scholarship and Research as Reception 10.1 On the Concept of 'Germanic' Religion and Myth - JULIA ZERNACK 10.2 Philological Studies of Nordic Religion from rni Magn sson until Today - ANNETTE LASSEN 10.3 The Social Turn: The pre-Christian Religions of the North in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries - MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS 10.4 Pre-Christian Religions of the North: The Reception Now - MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS Index of Authors, Artists and Works Index of Concepts‎