Transitions and Transformations

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Mythic Discourse Analysis

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Approaching Ideologies of Things Made of Language : A Case Study of a Finno-Karelian Incantation Technology

This article introduces an approach to ideologies of texts and of categories of text type for approaching the emic conceptions of things made of language or other kinds of signs. Finno-Karelian incantations of the ritual specialist known as a tietäjä provide a case study, considered in the broader context of cultures in the Circum-Baltic region. Text ideology is salient in this tradition owing to a conception that a performer will lose an incantation’s power when it is communicated as a whole to someone else, but not if verses are omitted. Discussion is organized in four parts, providing different types of contextualization before discussing emic conceptions of incantations proper. It begins with a theoretical introduction to text ideologies and genre ideologies in relation to language ideologies. This section includes positioning the approach from the perspective of (Finnish) folklore studies for better multidisciplinary accessibility. The second section contextualizes the tietäjä as a social institution, the corpora and approach. The third section introduces the ritual technology of the tietäjä, the physics of the world in which these operate and what these are conceived as ‘doing’ in ritual performance. The fourth section turns to the understanding of incantations as a type of text object in relation to the technology and their variation in practice.Peer reviewe

Parallelism and Orders of Signification (Parallelism Dynamics I)

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Theonyms, Alignment and Social Stance-Taking : From Bronze-Age Borrowings to Baby Names

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Calling People Gods : Theonyms as Bynames in Medieval Finland and Karelia

This paper explores the use of theonyms as personal names in medieval and post-medieval Finland and Karelia. The long-term continuity of the naming practice is discussed in terms local ideologies competing with the Church-authorized stance toward vernacular gods as “pagan”.Peer reviewe

Metrical Transcription as Scribal Performance : Reading Spaces in Eddic Poems and the Merseburg Charms

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Rhyme in Alliterative Oral Poetry : A Look at Old English, Old Norse, and Finno-Karelian Traditions

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Multiform Theory

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The Æsir : An Obituary

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