Northern Russian and Norwegian Mythological Household Spirits of Inhabited Space Typology

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10.2991/emssese-19.2019.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

folk culture, household spirit, folklore texts, myth, nissen, domovoj

Abstract

This article highlights representations of household spirit (domovoj (домовой) and nissen) in folk culture of the Arhangelsk region, Russia, and Northern Norway. The work proposes typological and regional approaches to the study of collected material. Typological vector is used to describe diachronic evidence and to evaluate genre characteristics, as well as to highlight historic and typologic features of folklore images. Typological direction studies those trends that lead to formation of plot and character groups. Regional approach allows a detailed study of the traditions of the area, regional, local and microlocal traits of northern folklore.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Inga Zashikhina
AU  - Natalia Drannikova
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Northern Russian and Norwegian Mythological Household Spirits of Inhabited Space Typology
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on European Multilingualism: Shaping Sustainable Educational and Social Environment (EMSSESE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 176
EP  - 180
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/emssese-19.2019.20
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