Nordic Women’s Writing and Religious Faith

Anna Bohlin is Professor of Nordic Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her main research interests are in Scandinavian nineteenth-century literature, with a focus on feminism, religion, and nationalism. Recent publications include co-editing the cross-disciplinary anthology Tracing the Jerusalem Code III: Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920) (2021).Margrét Eggertsdóttir is Research Professor at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík. She has co-edited an edition of the works of Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614–1674), authored numerous scholarly publications on the literature of late pre-modern Iceland, and led several research projects on early modern Icelandic literature.

• Introduction: Nordic Women and Religious Faith 1. “Pray for me”. The Case of Marine Lauridsdatter’s Prayer Book 2. The Company She Keeps: Poetry on Female Martyr Saints in Early Modern Icelandic Manuscripts 3. The Saint and the Sea: Úrsúlukvæði and Women’s Mobility in Premodern Iceland 4. Sacred poetry at Snæfellsnes: Kristín Árnadóttir's book of rímur 5. The Excessive Grief of Helga Jónsdóttir: Poem, Response Poem, and Historical Context 6. The Cross and the Pen: On Ingeborg Grytten’s writing 7. Norwegian Hymnwriter Berte Kanutte Aarflot’s Contemporary Role and her Indebtedness to The Forgotten Women Emissaries of The Hauge Movement 8. Awakenings: Women Writers, Religious Faith, and Women’s Agency in Nineteenth-Century Finland 9. The Nordic Emancipation Novels of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Between Lutheran Nationalism and Catholic Calling 10. The Cheerful Leprous Poet of Suffering: The Case of Kristín Guðmundsdóttir 11. Fiction, Moral Reform, and Religion – Finnish Feminists at the Turn of the Century 12. Hebrew Motifs in a Secularized Jewish Context: Sophie Elkan’s Short Stories 13. “Is it you, Bjørnson?” Ragna Nielsen’s Spiritualism as a Hauntology of the Modern Breakthrough