Simon Halink
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Halink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Halink |
| SIGNATURE | HALINK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fryske Akademy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Search of the Viking Type
As the use of racial and ethnic categories in national historiographies gained in popularity in the course of the nineteenth century, stereotypical conceptions of “the North” and Nordic culture morphed from literary tropes and metaphors into racial essentialism. In the present article, this development is charted from its prehistory in early modern Swedish Gothicism, through Gerhard Schøning’s Norwegian adaptation of this ethnocentric paradigm, t…
“Almost Like Family. Or Were They?” Vikings, Frisian Identity, and the Nordification of the Past
In the course of the twentieth century, the glorified image of Viking Age Scandinavia exerted an increasing attraction on intellectuals and nation builders in remote parts of Europe, especially those which self-identified as peripheral, marginalized, and ‘northern’. In the Dutch province of Friesland, the cultivation of a Frisian national identity went hand in hand with an antagonizing process of self-contrastation vis-à-vis the urbanized heartla…
Northern Myths, Modern Identities
This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches…
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Noble heathens
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre‐Christian paganisms made way for a more favourable image of the ‘noble heathen’, inspired by Romantic primitivism and the quest for national authenticity. Poets and philologists in Scandinavia turned to medieval manuscripts containing the remnants of the worldview of the Vikings (Ásatrú), and cultivated them as a repository of topoi and motifs for patriotic…
A Tainted Legacy
In the first half of the 19th century, the now largely forgotten Copenhagen-based Icelander Finnur Magnússon was considered Europe’s leading authority on Old Norse literature and runic inscriptions. His expert knowledge was called upon by scholars like the Grimm brothers, and his ground-breaking publications on Eddic mythology were inspired by the newest theories in comparative linguistics and philology. Finnur, an admirer of both Rasmus Rask and…
The Icelandic mythscape
When Icelandic intellectuals studying in Copenhagen encountered Romantic conceptions of landscape and literature in the early 1800s, they began redefining their ideas on Icelandicness and the value of their island's 'abnormal' landscape. The medieval sagas and Eddas were increasingly spatialised and woven into the fabric of a constructed national landscape. The cultural cultivation of Iceland's most prolific site of memory (Þingvellir) by poets l…
The Icelandic mythscape
When Icelandic intellectuals studying in Copenhagen encountered Romantic conceptions of landscape and literature in the early 1800s, they began redefining their ideas on Icelandicness and the value of their island's 'abnormal' landscape. The medieval sagas and Eddas were increasingly spatialised and woven into the fabric of a constructed national landscape. The cultural cultivation of Iceland's most prolific site of memory (Þingvellir) by poets l…
A Tainted Legacy
In the first half of the 19th century, the now largely forgotten Copenhagen-based Icelander Finnur Magnússon was considered Europe’s leading authority on Old Norse literature and runic inscriptions. His expert knowledge was called upon by scholars like the Grimm brothers, and his ground-breaking publications on Eddic mythology were inspired by the newest theories in comparative linguistics and philology. Finnur, an admirer of both Rasmus Rask and…
The Icelandic mythscape
When Icelandic intellectuals studying in Copenhagen encountered Romantic conceptions of landscape and literature in the early 1800s, they began redefining their ideas on Icelandicness and the value of their island's 'abnormal' landscape. The medieval sagas and Eddas were increasingly spatialised and woven into the fabric of a constructed national landscape. The cultural cultivation of Iceland's most prolific site of memory (Þingvellir) by poets l…
A Tainted Legacy
In the first half of the 19th century, the now largely forgotten Copenhagen-based Icelander Finnur Magnússon was considered Europe’s leading authority on Old Norse literature and runic inscriptions. His expert knowledge was called upon by scholars like the Grimm brothers, and his ground-breaking publications on Eddic mythology were inspired by the newest theories in comparative linguistics and philology. Finnur, an admirer of both Rasmus Rask and…
Noble heathens
In the course of the nineteenth century, traditional Christian conceptions of Europe's pre‐Christian paganisms made way for a more favourable image of the ‘noble heathen’, inspired by Romantic primitivism and the quest for national authenticity. Poets and philologists in Scandinavia turned to medieval manuscripts containing the remnants of the worldview of the Vikings (Ásatrú), and cultivated them as a repository of topoi and motifs for patriotic…
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Northern Myths, Modern Identities
This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches…
“Almost Like Family. Or Were They?” Vikings, Frisian Identity, and the Nordification of the Past
In the course of the twentieth century, the glorified image of Viking Age Scandinavia exerted an increasing attraction on intellectuals and nation builders in remote parts of Europe, especially those which self-identified as peripheral, marginalized, and ‘northern’. In the Dutch province of Friesland, the cultivation of a Frisian national identity went hand in hand with an antagonizing process of self-contrastation vis-à-vis the urbanized heartla…
In Search of the Viking Type
As the use of racial and ethnic categories in national historiographies gained in popularity in the course of the nineteenth century, stereotypical conceptions of “the North” and Nordic culture morphed from literary tropes and metaphors into racial essentialism. In the present article, this development is charted from its prehistory in early modern Swedish Gothicism, through Gerhard Schøning’s Norwegian adaptation of this ethnocentric paradigm, t…
History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies (4 works) · National identity (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)