Northern Lights: Following Folklore in North-Western Europe

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Author: Seamas O Cathain

ISBN-10: 1900621630

ISBN-13: 9781900621632

Category: Irish History

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List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsTabula gratulatoria1'Betwixt the Stirrup and the Ground': Some Remarks on an English Epitaph and a Scandinavian Folk Legend12Quotation Proverbs in Ireland93Caith Maige Tuired - A Parable of the Battle of Clontarf224Dreams in Old Norse and Old Irish Literature345Mists, Magicians and Murderous Children: International Migratory Legends Concerning the 'Black Death' in Iceland476The Blood Brothers' Tale607Oidhche Rionnagach Reulagach - A Tale with a Sting728The Wedding Dance and the Bridal House in Faeroese Folk Tradition879The Varolokkur of Guoriour Porbjarnardottir9710'Halt Illu Fran Bufa!' - Til Tolkingen af Kvinneby-Amuletten fra Oland11111Food-Provision Strategies on the Great Blasket Island: Strand and Shore12712Note on the Motif of the Wading Giant in Irish and Welsh14113O Bhun Go Barr an Bhaile: Recent Settlement on the Great Blasket Island14814The Original Name of the Viking Settlement at Limerick16515Acallam na Senorach and Snorri Sturluson's Edda17816Applause and Effect: Observations on the Dynamics of Traditional Song Performance and Social Evolution in Ireland19017Fer in the North Contree: 'With His Whole Heart' Revisited20218In Correspondence with Tradition: The Role of the Postal Questionaire in the Collection of Irish Folklore21519The Irish Hobby Horse and the Icelandic Horse Dance22920'Through a Glass, Darkly' - New Light on North-West European Dead-Child Traditions24121An Uaimh 'Dhraiochta'25522Of the Tiachog and Peillic and Objects of Straw and Rushes26223'Lean Ar Do Laimh': Seansceal Idirnaisiunta i mBealoideas na hEireann27924Aithint agus Ainmniu Sna Rannscealta29225Confrontational Ghost-Laying in England and Denmark30526Sceala Aduaidh31627Beliefs and World-view of a Swedish Crofter33028Proverbs and Traditional Sayings from Easter Ross342Bo Almqvist's Printed Works, 1991-363Index369