Northern Lights: Following Folklore in North-Western Europe - Essays in Honour of BoAlmqvist

"This collection of essays succeeds where it matters most; in deepening understanding of human experience, and conveying the joyfulness of the discovery." Bealoideas 2001 "The articles vary enormously in subject, across the range of heritage from food to dreams in Old Norse and Old Irish literature, to the connections between stories in different countries ... This kind of stuff isn't just interesting for heritage fans, it is also useful as gardening knowledge learned over time." Books Ireland March 2002 "This collection of 28 papers constitutes a representative selection of all the topics and fields of folklore-related topics that has characterized Bo Almqvist's work ... Moreover, this is a typographically beautiful book." Ethnologia Scandavica Vol 32 2002 "Readers interested in Ireland, Iceland, Scandinavia and North-Western Europe, Old Norse language and literature, folklore, legends, proverbs, worldview and Almqvist will thoroughly enjoy this tribute to Almqvist, with its many interesting, well written and thoroughly documented research essays." Arc (Nordic Yearbook of Folklore) Vol 60 2005

• Remarks on an English epitaph and a Scandinavian folk legend, Bengt af Klintberg; quotation proverbs in Ireland, Fionnuala Carson Williams; "Caith Maige Tuired" - parable of the battle of Clontarf, Michael Chesnutt; dreams in Old Norse and Old Irish literature, Hilda Ellis Davidson; international migratory legends concerning the "Black Death" in Iceland, Terry Gunnell; the blood brothers' tale, Hermann Palsson; "Oidhche Rionnagach Reulagach" -a tale with a sting, Barbara Hillers; wedding dance and bridal house in Faeroese folk tradition, Joan Pauli Joensen; the "Varolokkur" of Guoriour porbjarnardottir, Jon Hnefill Aoalsteinsson; "halt Illu Fran Bufa!" - Til Tolkingen af Kvinneby-Amuletten fra Oland, Jonna Louis-Jensen; food-provision strategies on the Great Blasket Island, Patricia Lysaght; note on the motif of the wading giant in Irish and Welsh, Proinsias Mac Cana; recent settlement on the Great Blasket Island, Criostoir Mac Carthaigh and Barry O'Reilly; original name of the Viking settlement at Limerick, Gearoid Mac Eoin; "Acallam na Senorach" and Snorri Sturluson's "Edda", Rory McTurk; dynamics of traditional song performance and social evolution in Ireland, Tom Munnelly; Fer in the North Contree - "with his whole heart" revisited,, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne Almqvist; role of the postal questionnaire in the collection of Irish folklore, Bairbre Ni Fhloinn; the Irish hobby horse and the Icelandic horse dance, Seamas O. Cathain; new light on north-west European dead-child traditions, Anne O'Connor; an uaimh "dhraiochta", Micheal O. Curraoin; of the "Tiachog" and "Peillic" and objects of straw and rushes, Anne O'Dowd; "Lean Ar Do Laimh" - Seansceal Idirnaisiunta I mBealoideas na hEireann, Padraig O. Healai; Aithint agus Ainmniu Sna Rannscealta, Daithi O. hOgain; confrontational ghost-laying in England and Denmark, Jacqueline Simpson; Sceala Aduaidh, Rionach ui Ogain; beliefs and world-view of a Swedish crofter, Bodil Nildin-Wall and Jan Wall; proverbs and traditional sayings from Easter Ross, Seosamh Watson.