An Ethnography of an Imaginary Road: Fear, Death, and Storytelling in the Icelandic Westfjords
Abstract The article presents a historical ethnography of an imaginary road. Drawing on printed sources, archival material, and new field research, it analyses the Icelandic folktale of ‘Loss of Men on Heiðarbæjarheiði’ (Manntjónið á Heiðarbæjarheiði), a story of regional importance in the Strandir...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/4667573 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4667573 |