{"id":48,"date":"2024-09-27T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T12:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:13:47","slug":"reclaiming-the-northern-past","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming the Northern Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Norse Literature and Political Aspirations<\/a><\/h3>

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Reclaiming the Northern Past<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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is the title of an international research project based at the Reykjav\u00edk Academy. It was awarded a three-year project grant from the Icelandic Research Fund in 2024. The subtitle of the project, The Shaping of National and Transnational Identities through Old Norse Literature 1750-1900<\/em>, provides further insight into the matter under investigation. The plan is to examine the productive reception of Old Norse literature in various cultural fields during the period, with a special focus on the role of the heritage in national discourse. The study will cover the Nordic countries and a few other countries in Northern Europe. The research team hopes to adduce evidence for its view that the diversity of national ideas informed by this heritage has hitherto been underestimated. The team intends not to limit the scope of the study to accounts of the origins or formative histories of specific nation-states but also to examine ideas that were not realised in the political sphere. The interplay of discourses, as well as transnational self-images, will receive particular attention. The team\u2019s methodological approach is based on the latest studies of cultural nationalism, in addition to which it will take account of histoire crois\u00e9e<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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There are three principal investigators: Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, Reykjav\u00edk, who is also the project leader; Clarence E. Glad, Reykjav\u00edk, and Jon Gunnar J\u00f8rgensen, Oslo. Other direct participants are: Au\u00f0ur Hauksd\u00f3ttir, Reykjav\u00edk; Bragi \u00deorgr\u00edmur \u00d3lafsson, Reykjav\u00edk; Paula Henrikson, Uppsala; Gunilla Hermansson, Gothenburg; Thomas Mohnike, Strasbourg; Klaus Johan Myrvoll, Stavanger; Katja Schulz, Frankfurt am Main\/ Reykja\u00adv\u00edk, and Kim Simonsen, T\u00f3rshavn\/Reykjav\u00edk. Simon Halink, Leeuwarden\/Reykja\u00adv\u00edk, is a close collaborator. A number of doctoral students and a group of advisors will be associated with the project.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Old Norse and German Romanticism<\/a><\/h3>

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Old Norse and Nordic Nationalism Old Norse Myths Across Europe Sagas as National Stories Norse Literature and Political Aspirations Reviving Old Norse Texts Reclaiming the Northern Past is the title of an international research project based at the Reykjav\u00edk Academy. It was awarded a three-year project grant from the Icelandic Research Fund in 2024. The subtitle of the project, The Shaping of National and Transnational Identities through Old Norse Literature 1750-1900, provides further insight into the matter under investigation. The plan is to examine the productive reception of Old Norse literature in various cultural fields during the period, with a special focus on the role of the heritage in national discourse. The study will cover the Nordic countries and a few other countries in Northern Europe. The research team hopes to adduce evidence for its view that the diversity of national ideas informed by this heritage has hitherto been underestimated. The team intends not to limit the scope of the study to accounts of the origins or formative histories of specific nation-states but also to examine ideas that were not realised in the political sphere. The interplay of discourses, as well as transnational self-images, will receive particular attention. The team\u2019s methodological approach is based on the latest studies of cultural nationalism, in addition to which it will take account of histoire crois\u00e9e. There are three principal investigators: Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, Reykjav\u00edk, who is also the project leader; Clarence E. Glad, Reykjav\u00edk, and Jon Gunnar J\u00f8rgensen, Oslo. Other direct participants are: Au\u00f0ur Hauksd\u00f3ttir, Reykjav\u00edk; Bragi \u00deorgr\u00edmur \u00d3lafsson, Reykjav\u00edk; Paula Henrikson, Uppsala; Gunilla Hermansson, Gothenburg; Thomas Mohnike, Strasbourg; Klaus Johan Myrvoll, Stavanger; Katja Schulz, Frankfurt am Main\/ Reykja\u00adv\u00edk, and Kim Simonsen, T\u00f3rshavn\/Reykjav\u00edk. Simon Halink, Leeuwarden\/Reykja\u00adv\u00edk, is a close collaborator. A number of doctoral students and a group of advisors will be associated with the project. Old Norse and German Romanticism Icelandic Sagas and National Pride Norse Themes in British Literature The Sagas\u2019 Cultural Revival Norse Literature in Transnational Contexts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":261,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}