Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

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indeX 253 Aasen, Ivar, 133 Act of Union (between Scotland and England, 1707), 13 affixes, 111, 112, 118, 119 agglutinative languages, 111–12, 204n10 Alps, alpine, 40–41 Alþingi (Icelandic national assembly), 56, 138, 139, 143, 157 Ammasalik district, Greenland, 105 angakok, 97 animal rights organizations, 167 anti-whaling sentiment, 161, 163–65 indeX Arctic, 82, 95, 96, 99–101, 115 Arngrímur Jónsson, 75, 77, 145 Arngrímur Jónsson Vídalín, 89, 90 Árni Magnússon, 89, 128, 210 Atlantic gannet (sula alba), 61 Auden, W. H., 3, 130 Ax, Christina Folke, 176–77n31 Bad Taste (Smekkleysa; art collective), 4 “bad years” of Icelandic history (Uaar), 36, 46 ballads, Faroese, 137 254 indeX Banks, Sir Joseph, 31, 34, 63, 126, 179–80n9, 188n7 Bárðarson, Ívar, 197n13 Barthes, Fredrik, 7 Bartholin, Thomas, 128 Bech, Hans Christian, 64–66, 70, 72 Bergen-Greenland Company, 88, 91, 95 Bergsland, Knut, 115–16, 120, 205n21 Bergþórshvoll, 5, 172n3 Bessastaðir, 77 Bishop Percy, 128 Bitterli, Urs, 108 Bjarni Halldórsson, 70 Bjarni Pálsson, 63, 74–76, 194 Björk, 4 Blue Lagoon (Bláa Lónið), 152 Bodmer, Johann Jakob, 129 Bokmål, 133–34 Book of Settlements (Landnámabók), 11 Bopp, Franz, 113–14, 136 Breiðafjörður, 89 British Royal Society, 34, 63 Broyting, 148, 150 Bruun, Daniel, 16 Brynjólfur Sveinsson, 189n8 Buckle, Henry Thomas, 196n4 Buffon, Comte de, 62–63, 68 Burton, Richard, 15, 26, 83, 85–86, 98 cameralism, 66 Carlyle, Thomas, 85, 196n4 Christian I, 12 Christian II, 174n10 Christian IV, 18, 35, 91, 150, 199n26 Christian V, 89 Christian VI, 88, 90, 188n5, 194n43 Christian IX, 56 cliché, 6, 21, 30, 152, 156 cold war, 26, 102, 177 Collingwood, W. G., 55–57 colonialism, 6, 19; French, 68; internal, 20, 22, 176n26 Colonial Pavilion (at 1900 World’s Fair), 15 Comte, Auguste, 85, 196n4 Cook, Captain James, 19 Crantz, David, 92, 94, 116, 199n25 Daly, Charles, 178n3 Danification, 133, 145 Danish Cancelli (Danske Kancelli), 5 Danish Golden Age, 48, 187 Danish High Court, 28 Danish monarchy, 12, 50, 65, 132–33, 139 Danish parliament, 28, 50, 95, 134, 210 Danish Royal Scientific Society, 63, 76, 188n5, 194n43 Danish state, 13, 35; and Greenland, 90–91, 94–97, 104, 131, 139, 149–50, 165, 187, 195; and Laki eruptions, 45, 56, 64–67, 70, 77, 80–81, 89; and the monarchy, 12, 50, 65, 132–33 Danish Treasury, 77 “dative disease” (þágufallssýki), 148 Dayes, Edward, 42, 55, 182n23 deCODE Genetics (Islensk erfðagreining ), 153–61, 163, 168–69, 185n39, 215n3 demi-Orientalization, 20–22 Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (KGH), 70, 95 Denmark. See Danish monarchy; Danish state Det Danske Landhusholdingsselskab (Danish Society for Farming Households), 189 Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. See Danish Royal Scientific Society indeX 255 Det Kongelige Bibliotek, 28, 210 Diamond, Jared M., 14 Diderot, Denis, 19 diet, medieval Norse, 14 dogsled, 29, 96, 100–101 Durrenberger, E. Paul, 26–27 earthquakes, 36, 44–46, 152 eastern Europe, 20–21, 180 East Greenland, 105, 111, 121, 200, 203 Eddic poems (or Edda), 5, 128–29, 198n20 Edinburgh, 33, 42 Education Act of 1845 (Provisorisk Reglement for Almueskolevæsenet paa Færøerne), 138–39 Egede, Hans, 69, 86, 88–94, 96, 98, 112 Egede, Niels, 198n14 Egede, Poul, 110, 112, 114, 198n14 Eggert Ólafsson, 63, 74–76, 194n39 Egill Skallagrímsson, 5 Eirik the Red’s Saga (Eiríks saga rauða), 90. See also Eiríkur Þorvaldsson (“the Red”) Eiríkur blóðöx (Erik of the Bloody Ax), 5 Eiríkur Þorvaldsson (“the Red”), 11–12, 90, 105 Endeavor (ship), 34 Enlightenment, 6, 10, 20, 64, 71, 74, 76–81, 180n11, 190n12 Eruption of Hekla, 41 essive case, 118 exhibitions, 175nn20–21 Fabricius, Otto, 112, 204n8 Far East, 63, 127 Faroe Islands, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 41, 61, 67, 82, 121, 123–24, 135–36, 138–39, and language debates, 142–44, 146–50; and whaling, 165 Faroese (the language), 25, 110, 126, 131–32, 134–51, 212, 213, 214 Faroese Løgting, 138–39 Finnur Jónsson, 52, 54, 60 folktales, 18, 21, 213n37; Icelandic, 210n10; Inuit, 96, 119, 176n24 Føringafelag, 140–41, 148 Føringatíðindi (News of the Faroes), 140 Franke, Rudolph, 201n37 Frankenstein (Shelley), 32 Franklin, Benjamin, 180 Franklin, Lady Jane, 200n32 Franklin, Sir John, 94–95, 100, 178 Frederick III, 35 Frederick...