VII. The Norrøn Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 7
3. Table of Contents 9
4. List of Abbreviations 14
5. Part I. General Background
6. Introduction 17
7. I. Certain Aspects of Norwegian Nationalism to 1870 21
8. II. Romanticism in Norway 45
9. III. The Romanticist Interest in Nationality and Culture 67
10. Part II. The Historians
11. IV. A Generation of Non-Professional Historians 91
12. V. The Norwegian Historical School: Keyser and Munch 106
13. VI. A Distinctive National Origin 123
14. VII. The Norrøn Literature 135
15. VIII. The Antipathy Against Denmark and the Danes 143
16. IX. Assembling and Preserving the Records 151
17. X. The Evidence of a Great Medieval Culture 171
18. XI. The Romanticism of the Norwegian Historical School 182
19. Part III. The Folklorists
20. XII. The First Folklore Collections 199
21. XIII. The Folk and Fairy Tales 214
22. XIV. The Ballads 237
23. XV. The Romanticism of the Folkorists 249
24. Part IV. The Philologists and the Language Question
25. XVI. The Separation from Denmark and the Question of Linguistic Independence 265
26. XVII. Romanticism in Philology 278
27. XVIII. Ivar Aasen and the Landsmaal Program 289
28. XIX. Controversy 307
29. XX. Cleavage 323
30. Part V
31. XXI. The Heritage 347
32. Conclusion 371
33. Bibliography 373
34. Index 385