Iceland and Images of the North

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of illustrations IX Daniel Chartier Foreword 1 Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson Introduction: Imaginations of National Identity and the North 3 HISTORICAL IMAGES 23 Sverrir Jakobsson The Emergence of Norðrlönd in Old Norse Medieval Texts, ca. 1100–1400 25 Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson Islands on the Edge: Medieval and Early Modern National Images of Iceland and Greenland 41 Clarence E. Glad The Greco-Roman Heritage and Image Construction in Iceland 1830–1918 67 Gylfi Gunnlaugsson Old Norse Poetry and New Beginnings in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Literature 115 Julia Zernack Old Norse–Icelandic Literature and German Culture 157 Kristín Loftsdóttir Racist Caricatures in Iceland in the Early 20th Century 187 Júlíana Gottskálksdóttir Monuments to Settlers of the North: A Means to Strengthen National Identity 205 Marion Lerner Images of the North, Sublime Nature, and a Pioneering Icelandic Nation 229 Heidi Hansson Between Nostalgia and Modernity: Competing Discourses in Travel Writing about the Nordic North 255 ICELAND AND IMAGES OF THE NORTH [ VIII ] CONTEMPORARY IMAGES 283 Karen Oslund The Image of Iceland in the Local and Global Nexus of Whaling Politics 285 Kristinn Schram Banking on Borealism: Eating, Smelling, and Performing the North 305 Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir Drinking in Iceland and Ideas of the North 329 Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir Nature, Nostalgia, and Narrative: Material Identity in Icelandic Design 351 Hallfríður Þórarinsdóttir The Use of English in Iceland: Convenience or a Cultural Threat? A Lingua Franca or Lingua Detrimental? 373 Þorgerður H. Þorvaldsdóttir The Gender-Equal North: Icelandic Images of Femininity and Masculinity 405 Heiða Jóhannsdóttir Staging the Nation: Performing Icelandic Nationality during the 1986 Reykjavík Summit 435 Katla Kjartansdóttir The New Viking Wave: Cultural Heritage and Capitalism 461 Daisy Neijmann Foreign Fictions of Iceland 481 Daniel Chartier The “North” and the “Idea of Iceland”: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Construction of Representations of Iceland 513 Guðrún Þóra Gunnarsdóttir Reflecting Images: The Front Page of Icelandic Tourism Brochures 531 Edward H. Huijbens Nation-Branding: A Critical Evaluation. Assessing the Image Building of Iceland 553 Notes on contributors 583 Places, persons, people, institutions, and events mentioned in the articles 589 ...