Andrew McGillivray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5978012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew McGillivray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | McGillivray |
| SIGNATURE | MCGILLIVRAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3839-6189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The family cliff
Two Sagas from New Iceland
When Manitoba’s Icelandic settler community composed its local history books two of the titles included the term saga: Gimli Saga (1975), authored by The Gimli Women’s Institute, and Icelandic River Saga (1985), authored by local historian Nelson Gerrard. By using the term saga, these local histories are set within and evoke an extended Icelandic historiographical tradition. This article introduces the Icelandic saga as a literary form and survey…
Dialogues about multicultural Canada
Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
Eric Shane Bryan's book about Icelandic folklore and cultural memory spotlights five Icelandic folktales, each concerning a specific theme: death and mourning, gender, supernatural attendance, sacred spaces, and the renewal of self (p. 1). Bryan's approach is diachronic, comparing post-Reformation folktales with textual evidence from medieval Iceland, primarily sagas. All five folktales are also compared cross-culturally with international folkta…
Eric Shane Bryan. Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
Eric Shane Bryan. Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change . Borderlines Series. Leeds, UK: Arc Humanities Press, 2021. Pp. vii + 162. Eric Shane Bryan’s book about Icelandic folklore and cultural memory spotlights five Icelandic folktales, each concerning a specific
L. K. Bertram. The Viking Immigrants
L. K. Bertram. The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans . Studies in Gender and History 49. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 245. The Icelandic community in North America continues to cultivate and celebrate a distinctive culture. L. K. Bertram’s The Viking Immigrants
The Viking Immigrants
Lover in a Dangerous Time
The medieval chronicler Adam of Bremen (c. 1040–c. 1081) wrote about the worship of a curious idol that would bestow pleasure on humans. This idol was said to be located at Uppsala, in what is now Sweden, in the eleventh century. The pursuit of pleasure is a ubiquitous feature of human societies
Lover in a Dangerous Time
Research Article| October 01 2021 Lover in a Dangerous Time: Pathos and the Warrior-Poet in Fóstbræðra saga Andrew McGillivray Andrew McGillivray University of Winnipeg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2021) 93 (3): 383–404. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.93.3.0383 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew McGillivray; Lover in a Dange…
The Best Kept Secret
Northrop Frye writes that treasure means wealth, which in often means wealth in its ideal forms, power and (Frye 1957, 193). Are power and wisdom connected to treasure? This paper challenges Frye's statement by exploring the action of Volsunga saga, a thirteenth-century Icelandic mythopoeic romance (what we may consider legendary or heroic literature), to determine if the characters who come into contact with great wealth--as many in the saga do-…
The Best Kept Secret
Northrop Frye writes that treasure means wealth, which in often means wealth in its ideal forms, power and (Frye 1957, 193). Are power and wisdom connected to treasure? This paper challenges Frye's statement by exploring the action of Volsunga saga, a thirteenth-century Icelandic mythopoeic romance (what we may consider legendary or heroic literature), to determine if the characters who come into contact with great wealth--as many in the saga do-…
The Best Kept Secret
Northrop Frye writes that treasure means wealth, which in often means wealth in its ideal forms, power and (Frye 1957, 193). Are power and wisdom connected to treasure? This paper challenges Frye's statement by exploring the action of Volsunga saga, a thirteenth-century Icelandic mythopoeic romance (what we may consider legendary or heroic literature), to determine if the characters who come into contact with great wealth--as many in the saga do-…
L. K. Bertram. The Viking Immigrants
L. K. Bertram. The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans . Studies in Gender and History 49. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 245. The Icelandic community in North America continues to cultivate and celebrate a distinctive culture. L. K. Bertram’s The Viking Immigrants
The Viking Immigrants
Lover in a Dangerous Time
The medieval chronicler Adam of Bremen (c. 1040–c. 1081) wrote about the worship of a curious idol that would bestow pleasure on humans. This idol was said to be located at Uppsala, in what is now Sweden, in the eleventh century. The pursuit of pleasure is a ubiquitous feature of human societies
Lover in a Dangerous Time
Research Article| October 01 2021 Lover in a Dangerous Time: Pathos and the Warrior-Poet in Fóstbræðra saga Andrew McGillivray Andrew McGillivray University of Winnipeg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2021) 93 (3): 383–404. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.93.3.0383 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew McGillivray; Lover in a Dange…
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
Eric Shane Bryan's book about Icelandic folklore and cultural memory spotlights five Icelandic folktales, each concerning a specific theme: death and mourning, gender, supernatural attendance, sacred spaces, and the renewal of self (p. 1). Bryan's approach is diachronic, comparing post-Reformation folktales with textual evidence from medieval Iceland, primarily sagas. All five folktales are also compared cross-culturally with international folkta…
Eric Shane Bryan. Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change
Eric Shane Bryan. Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change . Borderlines Series. Leeds, UK: Arc Humanities Press, 2021. Pp. vii + 162. Eric Shane Bryan’s book about Icelandic folklore and cultural memory spotlights five Icelandic folktales, each concerning a specific
Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend
Two Sagas from New Iceland
When Manitoba’s Icelandic settler community composed its local history books two of the titles included the term saga: Gimli Saga (1975), authored by The Gimli Women’s Institute, and Icelandic River Saga (1985), authored by local historian Nelson Gerrard. By using the term saga, these local histories are set within and evoke an extended Icelandic historiographical tradition. This article introduces the Icelandic saga as a literary form and survey…
Dialogues about multicultural Canada
The family cliff
History (8 works) · Icelandic (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)