This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern Europe.
Terry Gunnell is Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Author of The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia (1995), he is also co-editor of Málarinn og menningarsköpun: Sigurður Guðmundsson og Kvöldfélagið 1858–1874 (The Painter and Cultural Creation: Sigurður Guðmundsson and the Evening Society 1858–1874) which was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Award in 2017.
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