Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir
Biographic Data
| ID | 4047987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rósa |
| FAMILY NAME | Þorsteinsdóttir |
| SIGNATURE | ÞORSTEINSDÓTTIR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tales of Their Times
The aim of the article is to examine how the fairytales of storytellers from different times agree with the idea that their attitudes towards life appear in the fairytales that they tell and to consider whether they construct their fairytales so that they reflect the tensions and conflicts in their own times. This is achieved by looking into the tales of a woman storyteller in the nineteenth century when organized collecting began in Iceland, and…
Middle Eastern Tales in Icelandic Tradition
The article surveys translations of two Middle Eastern collections of tales, The Thousand and One Nights and The Thousand and One Days, into Icelandic. It demonstrates how both story collections were translated and repeatedly copied. Tales originating from the collections also circulated in Icelandic oral tradition when the recording of folktales began in the nineteenth century and were thus recorded along with others. Shedding light on story-tel…
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Middle Eastern Tales in Icelandic Tradition
The article surveys translations of two Middle Eastern collections of tales, The Thousand and One Nights and The Thousand and One Days, into Icelandic. It demonstrates how both story collections were translated and repeatedly copied. Tales originating from the collections also circulated in Icelandic oral tradition when the recording of folktales began in the nineteenth century and were thus recorded along with others. Shedding light on story-tel…
Tales of Their Times
The aim of the article is to examine how the fairytales of storytellers from different times agree with the idea that their attitudes towards life appear in the fairytales that they tell and to consider whether they construct their fairytales so that they reflect the tensions and conflicts in their own times. This is achieved by looking into the tales of a woman storyteller in the nineteenth century when organized collecting began in Iceland, and…
Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (1 work) · Genealogy (1 work) · History (1 work) · Icelandic (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Literature (1 work)