Syllabus/achievement requirements

*** Alver, Bente Gullveig: "The Devil and His Reputation: Facts and Fiction in Popular Storytelling" in Jawaharlal Handoo & Reimund Kvideland (ed.): Folklore in the Changing World, India 1999. Zooni Publications. 8 pages.

* Alver, Brynjulf: "Folklore and National Identity" in Kvideland & Sehmsdorf (ed.): Nordic Folklore. Recent Studies, 1989. Indiana University Press . 9 pages.

* Alver, Brynjulf: ""Historical legend and historical truth" in Kvideland & Sehmsdorf (ed.): Nordic Folklore. Recent Studies, 1989. Indiana University Press. 13 pages.

* Bennett, Gillian: "Women’s personal experience stories of encounters with the supernatural" in ARV, 1984. 9 pages.

Brunvand, Jan: "Norway’s Askeladden, the Unpromising Hero, and Junior-Right" in The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 72, No. 283. Jan-mar 1959. pp.14-23. 10 pages. Fulltext.

Bullard, Thomas E.: "UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in Technological Guise" in Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 102, No. 404, 1989. 24 pages. Fulltext.

* Bø, Olav: "The Hidden People in Norwegian Migratory Legends and Folk Belief" in ARV, 1993. 9 pages.

* Christensen, Olav: "The Nationalization of Winter and Skiing in Norway. An Analysis of the Ideological Background" in ARV, 1994. 21 pages Ill.

* DuBois, Thomas A.: "Folklore, Boundaries and Audience in The Pathfinder" in Juha Pentikäinen (ed.): Sami Folkloristics, Turku 2000. 20 pages.

** Espeland, Velle:: ... all for his maiden fair. The Norwegian Ballads, 2004. 24 pages.

** Espeland, Velle: "Oral Ballads as National Literature: The Reconstruction of Two Norwegian Ballads" in Estudos de Literatura Oral, No 6 2000. Centro de Estudos Ataíde Oliveira - Universidade do Algarve. pp. 19 – 32. 14 pages.

*** Gustavson, Anders: "To tell or not to tell. Relating to the surrounding power situation" in Anepaio & Jürgenson (ed.): Trying to understand culture, Talinn 1998. 15 pages Ill.

* Gustavson, Anders: "Folklore in Community Conflicts. Gossip in a Fishing Community" in ARV, 1979. 37 pages Ill .

** Hodne, Ørnulf: "Eventyrfortellerne som forskningsfelt " in Knut Aukrust & Anne Eriksen (ed.): Kunnskap om kultur. Folkloristiske dialoger, Oslo 1999. Novus forlag. English version "Folk-tale Narrators Considered as a Field of Research".

** Hodne, Ørnulf: "Sagn og eventyr som nasjonalkultur" in Øystein Sørensen (ed.): Jakten på det norske – perspektiver på utviklingen av en nasjonal identitet på 1800-tallet, Oslo 1998. Ad Notam Gyldendal. English version "Legends and Folk Tales as Elements of National Culture".

** Hodne, Ørnulf: "Naturoppfatning i norske folkeeventyr" in Norveg, 1993. English version "The Conception of Nature in Norwegian Folk Tales".

*** Kaplan, Merrill: "On the Road to Realism with Asbjørnsen and Moe, Peer Gynt, and Henrik Ibsen" in Scandinavian Studies, Winter 2003, Vol. 75 Issue 4. p. 491. 18 pages.

*** Klausen, Arne Martin: "The Torch Relay: Reinvention of Tradition and Conflict with the Greeks" in Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event. The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway, 1999. Berghahn Books. 21 pages .

* Klintberg, Bengt af: "Legends today" in Kvideland & Sehmsdorf (ed.): Nordic Folklore. Recent Studies, 1989. Indiana University Press. 20 pages.

* Mathiesen, Stein R.: "Changing Narratives about Sami Folklore. A Review of Research on the Sami Folklore in the Norwegian Area" in Juha Pentikäinen (ed.): Sami Folkloristics, Turku 2000. 28 pages .

* Mathisen, Stein R.: "Folklore and Cultural Identity" in Anttonen & Kvideland (ed.): Nordic Frontiers, 1993. 13 pages.

* Mathisen, Stein R.: "North Norwegian Folk Legends about the Secret Knowledge of the Magic Experts" in ARV, 1993. 9 pages.

Oring, Elliott (ed.): Folk Groups and Folklore Genres. An Introduction, 1986. Utah State University Press. 258 pages .

* Selberg, Torunn: "Male and Female in the Narrative Tradition of Fairies" in ARV, 1996. 8 pages.

*** Skjelbred, Ann Helene Bolstad: "These Stories Will Not Lead You to Heaven: An Encounter with Two Sámi Narrators" in Folklore 112, 2001. pp. 46-63. 17 pages Ill. Fulltext.

** Skjelbred, Ann Helene Bolstad: "From Legends of the Past to Timeless Stories about Man. The Changeling at All Times" in ARV, 1999. 11 pages.

** Solberg, Olav: "Jocular Ballads and Carnival Culture" in ARV, 1992. 7 pages.

*** Stokker, Kathleen: "Narratives on Magic and Healing. Oldtidens Sortebog in Norway and the New Land" in Scandinavian Studies, Fall 2001, Vol. 73 Issue 3. p. 399. 18 pages.

* Stokker, Kathleen: "ML 3005 -The Would-Be Ghost-: Why Be He a Ghost? Lutheran Views of Confession and Salvation in Legends of the Black Book Minister" in ARV, 1991. 10 pages.

*** Victor, Jeffrey S.: "Rumor-Panics across the Country" in Satanic panic: the creation of a contemporary legend, Chicago 1993. Open Court. 22 pages.

* Østerud, Øyvind: "Norwegian Nationalism in a European Context" in Øystein Sørensen (ed.): Nationalism in Small European Nations, 1996. KULTs skriftserie NO. 47. 11 pages.

** a selection of Norwegian and Samí fairytales (50 pages).

Total: 815 pages.

* Avaliable as a compilation at Kopiutsalget, Akademika. Remember to bring your student identification.

** Available as a compilation at Kopiutsalget, Akademika. Remember to bring your student identification.

*** Available as a compilation at Kopiutsalget, Akademika. Remeber to bring your student identification.

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