American/Medieval Goes North: Earth and Water in Transit

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The North signifies, as do all four cardinal directions, emotional, environmental, and cultural bodies of knowledge. These include political structures ("the wealthy North"), artistic productions ("Scandinavian" design), nomadic Hunter "Indigeneity" and Colonizer "Whiteness" as Northern signifiers - and, of course, the domain of many species of spirit masters, demons, and missionaries. Archaeologists agree that long before Columbus, it was Vikings and their slaves - northern seafarers from Scandinavia and enslaved men and women from Ireland - who made first contact with "America" in its northernmost regions. Twelve previously unpublished essays represent the disciplines of literature, history, art history, film studies, rhetoric, religious studies, cultural and queer studies. Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Body Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: American/Medieval Points North An Emergent Project Overview of Chapters and Sections Conclusion Bibliography Part One: Earth and Water in Transit Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing: “Her, the Water, and Me”: Three Women Go North I Roni Horn goes North II Three Icelandic Tales Seal Maiden More Women, More Water, and Some Treasure Lagarfljót, Home of the Worm III Anglo-Saxon Moorings Conclusion Bibliography E. R. Truitt: “And of all these things the Polar Bear was the symbol”: Charisma, Wilderness, and Whiteness Select Bibliography Mathias Nordvig: Katla the Volcanic Witch: A Medieval Icelandic Recipe for Survival Introduction The Metaphoric Mind: Native American Approaches to Oral History and Environment Volcanism in Medieval Icelandic literature Katla: The Spirit of Mýrdalsjökull Environment and the Human Mind Conclusion Bibliography Part Two: First Peoples Pamela Berger and Wayne Newell, with an Accompanying Essay by Barbara Hartwell Poirier: Though the Eyes of an Irish Slave: An Unconventional Point of Entry into the Medieval World Preparations for Filmmaking The Scholarship behind the Script and the Production Design Bibliography Barbara Hartwell Poirier: Notes of a Mashantucket Pequot Elder Bibliography Ulrike Wiethaus: Ultima Thule Redux: Screening Spaces of Death, Regeneration, and the Sacred in the Arctic Circle Continuous Settler Presence and its Impact on Inuit Health and Wellbeing: The Example of Kalaallit Nunaat The Fast Runner Trilogy (FRT): Filming Against the Death of History The Long Medieval Moment: Adam of Bremen and Christian Missionary Conquest Beyond Settler Time: Resolving Cultural and Religious Violence in the FRT Bibliography Mary Kate Hurley: Choosing a Past: Fictions of Indigeneity in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Introduction The Elder Scrolls Temporality and Video Games Case Studies: The Nords and The Forsworn Conclusion Appendix One Citing Books in Skyrim Bibliography Part Three: Men of the North Joshua Davies: Hengist and Horsa at Monticello: Human and Nonhuman Migration, Parahistory and American Anglo-Saxonism From the North: Hengist and Horsa in Anglo-Saxon England To the West: Jefferson's Anglo-Saxons “Founders of freedom and folk-builders mightiest” Mixed Blood and Mixed Times Select bibliography Tina Boyer: Losing your Religion in American Gods Introduction Coming to America: Immigration and Identity-Crises Surviving in America: Issues of Race, Gender, and Assimilation Conclusion: Humans, Immigration, and the Land Bibliography Margaret Zulick: American Compass: Sacred Land and the Early Mormon Imaginary The Sacred Compass: Memory, Place, Journey The Path of Discovery: Natural Magic, Divination and Treasures in the Earth The Path of History: Apostates and Faithful Servants The Path of Prophecy: Anxiety, Authority, Legitimation and the Memories of Lucy Mack Smith Three Paths and the American/Medieval Bibliography Part Four: Northern Cræft Donna Beth Ellard with Bailey Pittenger: Writing with Birds: Enigma 59, Riddle 51, and Process-Based Poetics Scribal Tools, Riddling Assemblages, and Writing with Birds Writing With Birds: a Process-based Poetics Writing with Birds and Duologic Form Bibliography Gale Sigal: “Like a Breath of Northwest Wind”: William Morris's Medievalism beyond England's Shores Medievalism, the American/Medieval, and William Morris Morris Goes North The Norse Transit to North America Kelmscott Press and the Book Arts in America The Afterlife William Morris and the Rewards and Limitations of the American/Medieval Bibliography Author Biographies Index