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From trolls to Turks: continuity and change in Danish legend tradition.
From:
Scandinavian Studies
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January 1, 1995| Author:
Tangherlini, Timothy R.
| COPYRIGHT 1995 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Twentieth-century Danish legends collected by Else Marie Kofod were analyzed and compared with the characteristics of 19th-century legends collected by Evald Tang Kristensen to examine Danish attitudes towards ethnic and supernatural 'Others.' Nineteenth-century legends assigned the role of the 'Other' to supernatural beings. Contemporary legend tradition, apart from being characteristically shocking, shows a tendency to assign the role of the 'Other' to Greenlanders, Pakistanis, Turks, Pales...
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