Comments on: Norse and Newsworthy

By: brian anse patrick

brian anse patrick — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:24:02 +0000

Hi.

Thank you, Chris, for taking note of my Vikings and Rappers article in Journal of Popular Culture. And thank you Alaric for threatening to inflict my article of your class. I would very much like to know how they reacted to it (or hear reactions from anyone else for that matter!) because I feel like I am working in a vacuum here. I am mainly interested in propagandas and wrote the articlel on Icelandic sagas and rap/hip-hop because of the way their respective poets informed directed social action.

Thanks

Brian Anse Patrick
brian.patrick@utoledo.edu

By: Alaric Hall

Alaric Hall — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:09:25 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on the Western Folklore article, Merrill, I didn’t know about that.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:01:20 +0000

On the subject of doom and gloom surrounding Iceland, a topical quiz had this question:
Q. What is the capital of Iceland?
A. About £3.75

By: Merrill Kaplan

Merrill Kaplan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:41:23 +0000

If you aren’t familiar with the special issue of Western Folklore from a few years ago entitled Performing through the Past: Ethnophilology and Oral Tradition, Tim Tangherlini’s introduction holds up the first lines of Egill’s Höfuðlausn against Run DMC’s “It’s Tricky.” Old School Rap meets, well, Old School Rap.

By: Alaric Hall

Alaric Hall — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:51:35 +0000

Thanks for the links! Andrew Wawn tells me he’s thinking of doing an article on Vikingtastic imagery in Iceland’s political and media discourse surrounding the current situation. And I’m doing a class on poetry and Egils saga next week, so the Patrick article will if nothing else be a stimulating addition to the reading list…