Printed Book
Arv, no. 81
ARV means heritage. ARV. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore presents our cultural heritage, folklore, as the foundation of our culture, our patterns of interaction and our world view. Folklore, i.e. popular poetry, belief and custom, is an important identity factor for every nation in historical as well as recent times.Reading ARV keeps you in touch with recent Nordic folklore and neighbouring disciplines. Recent thematic issues have included magic and witchcraft, memory and culture, and museums and heritage policies.
The journal’s target readership is academics, teachers and local historians.
Table of contents
Source system: Publicera
Sensing and Storying the Urban Landscape
- People-Place Relations in Central Reykjavík
Ólafurw Rastrick
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 7-28
Emerging Supranormal Wilderness
- Encountering Sites of Folk Belief in Finnish Belief Narratives and in the Field
John Björkman
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 29-51
Ott Heinapuu
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 53-81
Pilgrimage Place-lore
- Restorying Landscapes of St Olav and St Sunniva
Hannah Kristine Lunde
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 82-111
The Lake and Its Monster
- Communicating Connections with Landscape, Belonging and Sense of Place with Great Lake Monster Narratives
Sanna Händén-Svensson
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 112-129
The Flight to Šatrija Hill
- Lithuanian Folk Legends of the Witches’ Sabbath
Andrius Kaniava
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 130-151
Elves in Distress
- Icelandic Huldufólk Legends in Light of Nineteenth-Century Internal Migration
Joshua Lee
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 152-179
“To Women This Is Not To Be Told”
- Secrecy in Contraception and Abortion in late Medieval Scandinavian Medical Texts
Ailie Westbrook
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 180-200
A Nineteenth-Century Doomsday Theatre
- Eschatology, Time and Matter in the Scandinavian Countryside
Trym Sundby
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 201-217
Published: 2025-12-26
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Pages: 218-232
