This volume of essays is a symbolic image of the current contacts between Lithuanian Scandinavianists and their fellow scholars around the globe. It is composed in the traditional academic genre of the 'Festschrift' and is dedicated to Ērika Sausverde, the founder of Scandinavian studies in Lithuania. For many people in this country, this field, referred to in Lithuanian as 'skandinavistika', is synonymous with her name. The book contains contributions on topical, little-known aspects of Scandinavian literature, culture and society, as well as cultural and linguistic relations between Scandinavia and other countries.
Author(s): Ieva Steponavičiūtė, Loreta Vaicekauskienė (eds.)
Series: Scandinavistica Vilnensis, 14
Publisher: Vilnius University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English, Swedish
Pages: 278
Ērika Sausverde and her Scandinavian Rings 7
Tabula Gratulatoria 15
M. J. Driscoll / Herdís & Ólína: The Poetry of Everyday Life 21
Aurelijus Vijūnas / Problems in Mythological Reconstruction: Thor, Thrym, and the Story of the Hammer over the Course of Time 39
Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė / Dreaming the Hammer Back: On Teodoras Bieliackinas’s Translation of "Þrymskviða" 61
Ugnius Mikučionis. The Hero and his Values 87
Rasa Ruseckienė / That Rune Will Unlock Time’s Labyrinth...: Old Norse Themes and Motifs in George Mackay Brown’s Poetry 113
Ivars Orehovs. Den kultur- och litteraturhistoriska gestalten i den lettiska novellen "Svētā Briģita" ("Heliga Birgitta") av Jānis Ezeriņš 137
David Östlund / Peaceableness as a Weapon in Wars of Swedology 147
Jurij Kusmenko / Fornisländsk litteratur, genetik och historisk demografi om samisk-nordiska tidiga kontakter 183
Anatoly Liberman / An Etymological Dog Kennel, or Dog Eat Dog: Icelandic "setja upp við dogg", Engl. "to lie doggo", Engl. "dog", and Engl. "it's raining cats and dogs" 201
Axel Holvoet, Birutė Spraunienė & Asta Laugalienė / Some Implications for Ērika: Implicatives in Danish, Finnish and Lithuanian 215
Loreta Vaicekauskienė / Driving Forces behind Language Change. Does Danish Theory Hold up in Lithuania? 241
Contributing authors 273
