Mythology and Nation Building : N.F.S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries

Mythology and Nation Building : N.F.S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries

Sophie Bønding, Lone Kølle Martinsen, Pierre-Brice Stahl

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FörlagAarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN9788771849387

Stories of gods, heroes and monsters permeated discourses of national selfhood in the nineteenth century. During this tumultuous time, Europe’s modern nations arose from the misty waters of long-forgotten national pasts – or so was the perception at the time. Each embedded in their particular nation