Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe

Terry Gunnell is Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Author of The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia (1995), he is also co-editor of Málarinn og menningarsköpun: Sigurður Guðmundsson og Kvöldfélagið 1858–1874 (The Painter and Cultural Creation: Sigurður Guðmundsson and the Evening Society 1858–1874) which was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Award in 2017.

• ContentsList of Illustrations, Diagrams and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionTerry Gunnell1 Topo-narrativesJoep Leerssen2 The Grimm Brothers’ Deutsche Sagen: Collection Plan, Sources, Critiques, ReceptionHolger Ehrhardt3 The Accidental Folklorist: Thiele’s Collection of Danish Folk Legends in Early Nineteenth-Century DenmarkTimothy R. Tangherlini4 “You Can Therefore Rightly See These Folk Legends as a Reflection of Your Own!” The Grimm Brothers and the Norwegian Collector of Folk Legends, Andreas FayeHerleik Baklid5 Mapping the Knowledge Network of the Norwegian Folklore Collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in the Nineteenth CenturyAne Ohrvik6 Treue und Wahrheit: Asbjørnsen and Moe and the Scientification of Folklore in NorwayLine Esborg7 Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius and the Svenska sägner That Never AppearedTerry Gunnell and Fredrik Skott8 George Stephens: An Unlikely ConduitJohn Lindow9 Pioneers: Thomas Crofton Croker and the Brothers GrimmEilís Ní Dhuibhne Almqvist10 The Grimms, Scotland and “This New Science of ‘Storyology’”John Shaw11 Considered Trifles: English GrimmiansJonathan Roper12 The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries and V. U. Hammershaimb’s Collections of Faroese Folk LegendsKim Simonsen13 Konrad Maurer: Cultural Conduit and CollectorRósa Þorsteinsdóttir14 Jón Árnason and the Collection of Icelandic Folk Legends: Ripples, Flotsam, Nets and ReflectionsTerry Gunnell15 The Grimms and Folklore Collection in Estonia in the Mid-nineteenth CenturyLiina Lukas16 The Grimm Brothers and the Quest for Legends in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Folklore StudiesPertti Anttonen17 Oskar Rancken, Swedish-Language Folklore Collection in Finland and the Grimm RipplesUlrika Wolf-Knuts and Susanne Österlund-PötzschBibliographyIndex

“Seventeen articles in Grimm Ripples offer a wide, many-sided, and colorful picture of the emergence of European legend and fairy-tale studies, its success stories, challenges and difficulties, and the formation of early folkloristics.” “Grimm Ripples is an informative study of the beginnings of European folkloristics in the nineteenth century. It focuses on outstanding individual scholars and their works but likewise shows the importance of networking, social relationships and friendships.”---- Ülo Valk, in: Journal of Folklore Research Reviews September 25, 2023 "Grimm Ripples is a large collection of articles which importantly re-opens discussions that had been perhaps prematurely closed. "---- JoAnn Conrad, in: Folklore Published online: 21 Jun 2023 "A refreshing and timely read, Grimm Ripples convincingly explores the spread of folklore research and collection efforts in Northern Europe, influenced by the Grimms’ much neglected book Deutsche Sagen. Gunnell’s anthology is a meaningful and critical contribution to the ongoing analysis of the Grimms’ work, not only regarding their development of German folklore but of their advancement of national culture, pride, and identity throughout Europe". Rebecca Davis in Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, 38(1), 2024.