W F H Nicolaisen
Biographic Data
| ID | 225764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W F H Nicolaisen |
| GIVEN NAMES | W F H |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicolaisen |
| SIGNATURE | NICOLAISEN W F H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Schliesslich … Beschäftigung mit Namen in der Literatur
Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature (review)
Reviewed by: Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature W. F. H. Nicolaisen Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature. By William Hansen. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 548, bibliography, index of ancient sources, index of tale types and motifs, general index.) William Hansen's Ariadne's Thread introduces the principles of one field of study—folk-nar…
Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature
Book Review| April 01 2005 Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature, William Hansen. W. F. H. Nicolaisen W. F. H. Nicolaisen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (468): 241–243. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137708 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mai…
Teaching Names
William Motherwell's Cultural Politics, 1797-1835 (review)
William Motherwell's Cultural Politics, 1797-1835. By Mary Ellen Brown. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Pp. xii + 265, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index.)
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002)
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) W. F. H. Nicolaisen and Margaret A. Mackay Perhaps it was something of an omen that James Scott (Hamish) Henderson's birthday, November 11, 1919, coincided with Armistice Day, the day on which the first of the two great wars of the twentieth century came de facto to an end and the weapons were silenced; for only twenty-six years later, toward the end of another six years of large-scale and devastating hostilities, Ham…
William Motherwell's Cultural Politics, 1797-1835
Book Review| April 01 2004 William Motherwell’s Cultural Politics, 1797-1835 William Motherwell’s Cultural Politics, 1797-1835, Mary Ellen Brown. W. F. H. Nicolaisen W. F. H. Nicolaisen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 222–223. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137845 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation W. F. H. Nicolaisen…
Presidential Preferences
When, after my second presidential address in London last year, I first mentioned the potential title of my third, it was not just the allure of alliteration that had suggested it to me--although there had been that, too, of course--but chiefly a thematic appropriateness for someone who at that time was about to spend a year reflecting on both the substance of, and the strategic approach to, a presentation that would, he hoped, satisfy him person…
Narrating Names
Burglars and Burglaries in Contemporary Legends
Among the several anxieties to which legends respond, through the narration of events bordering on the believable, is the fear of violation of one's property, especially one's home. In this essay, the notion of burglars and burglaries is extended beyond its usual boundaries to include examples from intrusions into the human body, as well as from outer space and the other world. This presentation serves a double purpose: on the one hand, it concen…
Fifty Years Onoma (1950-2000)
Marking Time—Marking Space
At a time when we witness the transition from one millennium to another, it is inevitable that our awareness of things temporal should be heightened. Here I respond to this special awareness by exploring some of the ways in which we arbitrarily interrupt the continuum of both time and space through processes such as periodization and the naming of locations, either in connection with events that happen in time and space or, in the case of spatial…
Ballads into Books. The Legacies of Francis James Child
The Earliest English Place Names in North East Scotland
This paper is intended to present the results and highlight some of the problems of a preliminary exploration of the beginnings of a linguistic stratum in the placenomenclature of a region.1 For want of a better term this 'region' will be designated conventionally North East Scotland or the Scottish north-east, for our purposes, its heartland is understood to consist of Aberdeenshire , Banffshire and Moray but in addition the Mearns to the south …
An Onomastic Autobiography, or, In the Beginning Was the Name
On Monday
From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow: Unusual Kentucky Place-Names
Book Review| October 01 1999 From Red Hot to Monkey’s Eyebrow: Unusual Kentucky Place-Names From Red Hot to Monkey’s Eyebrow: Unusual Kentucky Place-Names, Robert M. Rennick. W. F. H. Nicolaisen W. F. H. Nicolaisen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (1999) 112 (446): 574–576. https://doi.org/10.2307/541503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site …
At Brechin with Stirks: A Farm Cash Book from Buskhead, Glenesk Angus, 1885-1898
Kenneth S. Goldstein, 1927–1995
A Gleaner's Vision
C'est le 12 aout 1846 que le britannique W. J. Thoms inventa le terme de « folk-lore » (au coeur du peuple) qui remplaca celui d'« antiquite populaire ». Il definit ainsi le nouveau domaine de recherche (coutumes, croyances, rituels et certains genres verbaux plutot que la culture materielle et les contes populaires)
Chaseworld: Foxhunting and Storytelling in New Jersey's Pine Barrens
Scottish Place Names as Evidence for Language Change
This paper traces several changes in the pronunciation of unaccented final syllables in Scottish place names. It claims that place names which are lexically opaque are more likely to reflect changes in pronunciation earlier than words the lexical meaning of which is well known. As a parallel, the loss of -l in words like ball, wall and fall is illustrated by the appearance of continuing usage of Fal- spellings in the name Falkirk (earlier Fawkirk…
Why Tell Stories about Innocent, Persecuted Heroines
Obituary: Kenneth H. Jackson, 1909–1991
Humour in Traditional Ballads (Mainly Scottish)
Sur les ballades ecossaises humouristiques : ce type de ballades relate essentiellement les relations homme-femme dans le mariage ou lors des cours (courtiser) ainsi que le travail a la ferme
Namethat Past: Placenames in Autobiographical Writings
As discussed in two of my previous articles, placenames playa significant role in the creation of the past. In autobiographical reminiscences, both speakers and writers (with examples drawn from well-known Scots) reveal a strategic compulsiveness to evoke past places by naming them
The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm
The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man
In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max Luthi, the traditional fairytale is examined from two related points of view, that of aesthetics and that of anthropology. Luthi shows that fairytales are more than just a pleasing form; they present a particular way of looking at the world and at human existence. Thus, they must be evaluated in terms of what they say about man and the human condition. This exemplary study will be read …
A Gleaner's Vision
C'est le 12 aout 1846 que le britannique W. J. Thoms inventa le terme de « folk-lore » (au coeur du peuple) qui remplaca celui d'« antiquite populaire ». Il definit ainsi le nouveau domaine de recherche (coutumes, croyances, rituels et certains genres verbaux plutot que la culture materielle et les contes populaires)
Are there Connotative Names
(1978). Are there Connotative Names? Names: Vol. 26, In Honour of Professor Claude Henry Neuffer, pp. 40-47
Place-Name Legends: An Onomastic Mythology
JUST over thirteen years ago, on 20 March 1963, Professor Mary Williams delivered, at the Annual General Meeting of the Folklore Society, a Presidential Address entitled 'Folklore and Placenames'.' In that enlightening paper she concentrated on place names in the British Isles which have apparently been created by folklore, particularly by belief in supernatural beings, such as giants, spirits, ghosts, and especially the Devil, by religious legen…
The Past as Place: Names, Stories, and the Remembered Self
While the treatment of time in, and the temporal structure of, stories from the folk-cultural register have fascinated students of folk-narrative for a long time,5 this fascination has reached a new peak in recent years.6 There is now considerable agreement among scholars, and I subscribe to this view, that the folktale, and by that we mean essentially what in German is usually termed the mdrchen, is in its very nature ahistorical. For this reaso…
PlacenalDes and Politics
At an international conference in Bozen/Bolzano (Italy) in 1985, I participated in discussions of the way that placenames of minority cultures or languages are treated in a number of countries and how political considerations tend to have a strong influence on the various attitudes
Why Tell Stories about Innocent, Persecuted Heroines
Onomastic Dialects
Place-Names in Bilingual Communities
(1975). Place-Names in Bilingual Communities. Names: Vol. 23, Francis Lee Utley, pp. 167-174
Names as Verbal Icons
Names as Verbal Icons 1 w.F. H. NICOLAISEN "And in the end, their names were only names and names -and nothing more
Place-Names in Traditional Ballads
WHEN is a ballad not a ballad?' Bertrand Bronson asks at the outset of his monumental four-volume edition of The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads,1 and he answers his own question quite categorically 'When it has no tune.' For someone who spent a lifetime of scholarship on the inter-dependence of ballad texts and tunes, this is the only answer to give, and his insistence that we must pay at least as much attention to the tunes as to the tex…
Narrating Names
Burglars and Burglaries in Contemporary Legends
Among the several anxieties to which legends respond, through the narration of events bordering on the believable, is the fear of violation of one's property, especially one's home. In this essay, the notion of burglars and burglaries is extended beyond its usual boundaries to include examples from intrusions into the human body, as well as from outer space and the other world. This presentation serves a double purpose: on the one hand, it concen…
An Onomastic Autobiography, or, In the Beginning Was the Name
On Monday
Scottish Place Names as Evidence for Language Change
This paper traces several changes in the pronunciation of unaccented final syllables in Scottish place names. It claims that place names which are lexically opaque are more likely to reflect changes in pronunciation earlier than words the lexical meaning of which is well known. As a parallel, the loss of -l in words like ball, wall and fall is illustrated by the appearance of continuing usage of Fal- spellings in the name Falkirk (earlier Fawkirk…
German-American Folklore
Recent German Publications in Onomastics
Burnside of Duntrune: An Essay in Praise of Ordinariness
An Essay in Praise of Ordinariness w.F
What Crisis in Onomastics
What is your Name? The Question of Identity in Some of the Waverley Novels
stranger gradually withdrew himself from under the hand of his monitor; and, pulling his hat over his brows, thus interrupted him. 'Your meaning, sir, 1 daresay, is excellent, but you are throwing your advice away ... ' 'Who, or what are you?' replied Butler, exceedingly and most unpleasantly surprised, ... 'I am the devil!' answered the young man hastily .... 'Yes! call me Apollyon, Abaddon, whatever name you shall choose . . . to call me by, yo…
Field-Collecting in Onomastics
References Bennett, John W. 1948 “The Study of Cultures: A Survey of Technique and Methodology in Field Work,” American Sociological Review 13, 672–689. Cassidy, Frederic G. 1968 Dane County Place-Names (Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press). Dundes, Alan 1962 “On the Psychology of Collecting Folklore,” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 28, No. 3, 65–74. Goldstein, Kenneth S. 1964 A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore (Hatboro,…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access W. F. H. NICOLAISEN W. F. H. NICOLAISEN University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXV, Issue 297, October 1960, Pages 711–712, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXV.297.711 Published: 01 October 1960
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access W. F. H. NICOLAISEN W. F. H. NICOLAISEN University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVIII, Issue CCCVI, January 1963, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVIII.CCCVI.148 Published: 01 January 1963
Short Notices
Short Notices W. F. H. NICOLAISEN W. F. H. NICOLAISEN University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXI, Issue CCCXX, July 1966, Pages 578-b–579, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXI.CCCXX.578-b Published: 01 July 1966
Short Notices
Folk Literature (Germanic)
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access W. F. H. NICOLAISEN W. F. H. NICOLAISEN State University of New YorkBingbamton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVI, Issue CCCXL, July 1971, Page 602, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVI.CCCXL.602 Published: 01 July 1971
American Place‐Names: A Concise and Selective Dictionary for the Continental United States of America . George R. STEWART
Short Notice
Journal Article Short Notice Get access W. F. H. NICOLAISEN W. F. H. NICOLAISEN State University of New YorkBinghampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLII, January 1972, Pages 184-a–184, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLII.184-a Published: 01 January 1972
Place-Names in Traditional Ballads
WHEN is a ballad not a ballad?' Bertrand Bronson asks at the outset of his monumental four-volume edition of The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads,1 and he answers his own question quite categorically 'When it has no tune.' For someone who spent a lifetime of scholarship on the inter-dependence of ballad texts and tunes, this is the only answer to give, and his insistence that we must pay at least as much attention to the tunes as to the tex…
Deutsche Volkskunde zwischen Germanistik und Sozialwissenschaften
Names as Verbal Icons
Names as Verbal Icons 1 w.F. H. NICOLAISEN "And in the end, their names were only names and names -and nothing more
Short Notices
SHORT NOTICES Get access W. F. H. NICOLAISEN W. F. H. NICOLAISEN State University of New YorkBinghamton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XC, Issue CCCLV, April 1975, Pages 408–409, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XC.CCCLV.408 Published: 01 April 1975
Place-Names in Bilingual Communities
(1975). Place-Names in Bilingual Communities. Names: Vol. 23, Francis Lee Utley, pp. 167-174
Place-Name Legends: An Onomastic Mythology
JUST over thirteen years ago, on 20 March 1963, Professor Mary Williams delivered, at the Annual General Meeting of the Folklore Society, a Presidential Address entitled 'Folklore and Placenames'.' In that enlightening paper she concentrated on place names in the British Isles which have apparently been created by folklore, particularly by belief in supernatural beings, such as giants, spirits, ghosts, and especially the Devil, by religious legen…
Early Scandinavian naming in the Western and Northern Isles
Celtic Toponymics in Scotland
(1977). Celtic Toponymics in Scotland. WORD: Vol. 28, Celtic Linguistics--1976, pp. 117-139
Are there Connotative Names
(1978). Are there Connotative Names? Names: Vol. 26, In Honour of Professor Claude Henry Neuffer, pp. 40-47
Field-Collecting in Onomastics
References Bennett, John W. 1948 “The Study of Cultures: A Survey of Technique and Methodology in Field Work,” American Sociological Review 13, 672–689. Cassidy, Frederic G. 1968 Dane County Place-Names (Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press). Dundes, Alan 1962 “On the Psychology of Collecting Folklore,” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 28, No. 3, 65–74. Goldstein, Kenneth S. 1964 A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore (Hatboro,…
Scottish Place-Names
What is your Name? The Question of Identity in Some of the Waverley Novels
stranger gradually withdrew himself from under the hand of his monitor; and, pulling his hat over his brows, thus interrupted him. 'Your meaning, sir, 1 daresay, is excellent, but you are throwing your advice away ... ' 'Who, or what are you?' replied Butler, exceedingly and most unpleasantly surprised, ... 'I am the devil!' answered the young man hastily .... 'Yes! call me Apollyon, Abaddon, whatever name you shall choose . . . to call me by, yo…
Onomastic Dialects
Ehebruchschwanke in Liedform
Personal Names in Traditional Ballads: A Proposal for a Ballad Onomasticon
Obituary: Leopold Schmidt (1912–1981)
Zur Herkunft und Altersbestimmung einer Novellenballade
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