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

Dr. Ingunn Ásdísardóttir, folklorist and independent scholar at The Reykjavík Academy Dr. Felix Lummer, external lecturer in Old Nordic Religion and Belief at the University of Iceland Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, associate research professor at the Arnamagnæan Institute Dr. Júlíana Þóra Magnúsdóttir, adjunct lecturer in Folkloristics at the University of Iceland Dr. Katrín Lísa van der Linde Mikaelsdóttir, researcher and project manager at the Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, University of Iceland

• Introduction The EditorsTerry Gunnell: A Prefatory NoteAndrew WawnLeikur 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