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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Eggs, Hair, Seeds, Milk, Patrick West
Eggs, Hair, Seeds, Milk, Patrick West
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
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Landscape Theology: Exploring The Outfields Of The Telemarkian Dream Song, Thomas Arentzen
Landscape Theology: Exploring The Outfields Of The Telemarkian Dream Song, Thomas Arentzen
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
The article explores the Norwegian ‘national ballad’ Draumkvæde (the Dream Song) in Maren Ramskeid’s version. This work has traditionally been interpreted as a folklore adaptation of medieval visionary literature such as the Vision of Tundale, related to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The ballad, however, lacks demons and devils and infernal torture – it is even almost completely devoid of human beings. Instead it tells of a corporeal encounter with an imagined natural landscape. This dreamscape of the song is intimately intertwined with the local terrain of the singer. Maren Ramskeid engaged her own landscape in Telemark, the …