“Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”
"Buslubœn" is a fictional charm included in a relatively late Icelandic text, "Bósa saga", that can be ranged within the 'fornaldarsögur', as scholars named a group of fable-like narratives set in a distant past that enjoyed vast popularity in medieval Iceland. This s...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11586/83619 |
| Summary: | "Buslubœn" is a fictional charm included in a relatively late Icelandic text, "Bósa saga", that can be ranged within the 'fornaldarsögur', as scholars named a group of fable-like narratives set in a distant past that enjoyed vast popularity in medieval Iceland. This study shows that a number of features in "Buslubœn" could have been inspired by long-lost actual magic formulas from oral tradition, preserving interesting traces of heathen concepts even centuries after Iceland had been converted. |
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