2016–2017 Double Issue
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4 C OMMENTS , P ERSPECTIVES AND R EPORTS What to Call the Poetic Form – Kalevala-Meter or Kalevalaic Verse, regivärss, Runosong, the Finnic Tetrameter, Finnic Alliterative Verse or Something Else? ............................................. 139 Kati Kallio and Frog with Mari Sarv Frog, “Linguistic Multiforms in Kalevalaic Epic: Toward a Typology”: Some Comments from an Editorial Perspective ........................................................................................................... 162 Clive Tolley The Concept of Postmortem Retribution: The Surveyor's Soul as ignis fatuus (in Lithuanian Material) ........................................................................................................................................... 165 Jūratė Šlekonytė C ONFERENCES AND E VENTS The Hurford Center’s 2017 Mellon Symposium “Songs for the Dead: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Lament and Elegy” ................................................................................................. 171 Oliver Hughes, Maria Mitiuriev and Katelyn St. Onge Versification: Metrics in Practice .................................................................................................... 173 Erika Laamanen The Viking World – Diversity and Change ..................................................................................... 174 Elisabeth Maria Magin Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Subjects ................. 177 Filip Missuno R ECENT P UBLICATIONS Svyatogor: Death and Initiation of the Russian Epic Hero .............................................................. 180 Jiří Dynda Master Poets, Ritual Masters: The Art of Oral Composition among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia .......................................................................................................................................... 184 James J. Fox (Magic) Staffs in the Viking Age ..................................................................................................... 184 Leszek Gardeła P H D D ISSERTATION P ROJECTS Mediaeval Transfer, Transmission, and Reception of the Latin Culture in the Saga of the Romans (Rómverja saga, AM 595 a–b 4o and AM 226 fol.) ................................................ 188 Grzegorz Bartusik Berserkir: A Re-Examination of the Phenomenon in Literature and Life ....................................... 192 Roderick Thomas Duncan Dale Runes, Runic Writing and Runic Inscriptions as Primary Sources for Town Development in Medieval Bergen, Norway ........................................................................................................... 196 Elisabeth Maria Magin Between Unity and Diversity: Articulating Pre-Christian Nordic Religion and its Spaces in the Late Iron Age ......................................................................................................................... 199 Luke John Murphy The Birth of the Iamb in Early Renaissance Low Countries ........................................................... 203 Mirella De Sisto 5 M ASTER ’ S T HESES Bodies Become Stars: Numinous Transformation of Physical Damage in Heathen Cosmology .... 207 A Heathen Mecca: Interpreting the International Germanic Contemporary Pagan Response to the Icelandic Temple .................................................................................................................... 207 Ross Downing Weaponry from the 9 th to 11 th Centuries from Watery Locations in North-Western Poland .......... 208 Klaudia Karpińska 6 Editor’s Column Adaptation is fundamental to evolution. Retrospective methods, by definition, are oriented to look into the past, and studies in this journal commonly discuss historical changes, their motivations and consequences, not to mention alternatives such as disarticulation or extinction. A lesson to be drawn from these discussions is that, when conditions beyond our control change, adaptation may become essential for continuation. The Retrospective Methods Network was flexible in its emergence and has thrived, with multiple shifting centers of activity loosely organized and RMN Newsletter at their nexus. Of course, as a journal, RMN Newsletter requires greater formalization, structure and stability. Unlike the organization of activities of the RMN and its daughter networks, responsibility for the journal does not move from institution to institution and from country to country. It is therefore more vulnerable to changes in circumstances where it is based. As many of our readers have noticed, such changes have occurred, resulting in delays in publication and threatening even to erase the journal from the web. And we have adapted, emerging reborn with a new URL. And the journal has evolved. What happened? RMN Newsletter is published by Folklore Studies of the University of Helsinki, and the journal’s pages were constructed on that department’s webpages. A few years ago, Folklore Studies was absorbed into the (super-)Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies in the sort of departmental consolidation happening in many universities, and at the end of this year the super-departments within the Faculty of Arts will also be dissolved (although the new divisions will also be called ‘departments’ in English). One would not expect all of this to affect the journal, but web pages associated with the previous department structure were frozen last year, blocking publication. Finding a new home on the University’s site proved a challenging task: the super-departments were on the cusp of being dissolved; the new divisions did not yet have webpages; yet the journal’s website could not be independent in the University of Helsinki’s domain. Finally, this summer, we received a new URL and began to rebuild. This tumultuous period has not been without activity in the RMN. A multidisciplinary international symposium and workshop for doctoral students, “Mythology, Discourse, and Authority: Retrospective Methods in Cultural Research” (22 nd –23 rd November 2016, Tartu, Estonia), was organized by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, the Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA), and the Department of Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki. Among the daughter networks of the RMN, the Austmarr Network has been going strong. It has maintained its rhythm of annual meetings: Austmarr VI: “Religion – Language – Practice, with a Workshop on Late Iron Age Mortuary Behaviours” was held at the University of Helsinki (5 th –6 th December 2016, Helsinki, Finland), and this year Austmarr VII is returning to the University of Tartu, where it was founded, organized on the theme of “Crossing Disciplinary Borders in Viking Age Studies: Problems, Challenges and Solutions” (1 st –3 rd December 2017, Tartu, Estonia). The long-awaited collection of articles that developed around selected contributions from Austmarr II and Austmarr III, Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern Mare nostrum, 500–1500 A.D., will appear with Amsterdam University Press in 2018. At the initiative of Kendra Willson, the Austmarr Network is organizing a special issue of the present journal, planned to appear in the same year. The Old Norse Folklorists Network has developed a volume of eleven selected articles based on its 2014 symposium that should also appear in the coming months. There is much to look forward to, and talk of plans for new directions that will certainly become of interest to our readership. The revamping motivated by building RMN Newsletter’s new website has extended to additional changes for the journal itself. Of course, the journal has evolved continuously over the years in relation to the interests and needs of our readership. It was founded at the first meeting of the Retrospective Methods Yüklə 6,76 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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