Boreas rising : antiquarianism and national narratives in 17th- and 18th-century Scandinavia

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction / Roling, Bernd / Schirg, Bernhard -- Hypothesis Islandica, or Concerning the initially supportive but ultimately subversive impact of the rediscovery of medieval Icelandic literature on the evaluation of Saxo Grammaticus as a historical authority...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction / Roling, Bernd / Schirg, Bernhard -- Hypothesis Islandica, or Concerning the initially supportive but ultimately subversive impact of the rediscovery of medieval Icelandic literature on the evaluation of Saxo Grammaticus as a historical authority during the heyday of Danish antiquarianism / Jensson, Gottskálk -- Praises of Towns and Provinces at the Academy of Turku in the Seventeenth Century / Sarasti-Wilenius, Raija -- Antiquarianism without Antiques. Topographical Evidence and the Formation of the Past / Neville, Kristoffer -- Spirit of the Age. Erik Dahlbergh's Images of Sweden's Past / Nordin, Jonas -- Antiquarianism, politics, and self-fashioning in Magnus Rönnow's poem Scanicae Runae cum Ense Thorsiöensi (1716) / Dahlberg, Elena -- The Northern Face of January. Roman narratives of early cultural history (Janus, Saturn, Numa) and their appropriation in Swedish antiquarianism / Schirg, Bernhard -- Søren Abildgaard - a Patriotic Antiquarian Draftsman from Eighteenth-century Denmark / Grinder-Hansen, Poul -- Etymologized space: Olof Rudbeck the Elder and the Phrygian language / Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich -- De usu diversitatis linguarum. Linguistic past (and present) in the dissertations supervised by Carl Abraham Clewberg (1712-1765) at the Academia Aboensis / Merisalo, Outi -- Trapped and Lost in Translation - The Moose in Early Modern Zoology and Biblical Philology in Northern and East-Central Europe / Hübbe, Benjamin -- Hyperboreans in Tibet: Transformations of the Atlantica of Olaus Rudbeck in the eighteenth and nineteenth century / Roling, Bernd -- Index of Names Ausführliche Beschreibung