C1 Refereed scientific book

"Hard it is to stir my tongue". Raiding the Otherworld for the Elixir of Poetry



Authors: Clive Tolley

Edition: Academia Scientiarum Fennica

Publishing place: Helsinki

Publication year: 2019

Series title: Folklore Fellows' Communications

Number in series: 317

Number of pages: 296

ISBN: 978-951-41-1140-2

ISSN: 0014-5815


Abstract

Considers the motif of gaining poetic inspiration by raiding the Otherworld in various traditions: Old Norse, Old English, medieval Welsh, medieval Irish, ancient Greek, Finnish/Karelian folk tradition, Siberian shamanism, English Romanticism (Coleridge).



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