| Files: | Description | File size | Format | Browse |
| Fulltext | 6.13 MB | PDF (requires Acrobat Reader) | Previous | Next |
| | |
| Authors: | Lill Eilertsen: University of Oslo, Norway |
| Publication title: | Freedom Loving Northerners: Norwegian Independence As Narrated in Three National Museums |
| Conference: | Great Narratives of the Past Traditions and Revisions in National Museums: Conference Proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Paris 28 June – 1 July & 25–26 November 2011 |
| Publication type: | Abstract and Fulltext |
| Issue: | 078 |
| Article No.: | 013 |
| Abstract: | After undergoing three different liberation processes during a relatively short period of time – from a dynastic union with Denmark in 1814, from a personal union with Sweden in 1905 and from German occupation in 1945 – independence has become an important term for defining a national and cultural identity in Norway. The narratives presented in this report all refer to an old European mythological construct of Northmen’s independent and freedom loving character: The Museum of Cultural History presents a Viking ideal of brave and inventive explorers, while the independent Norwegian farmer is portrayed at the Norwegian Folk Museum. A series of stories of Norwegians fighting for autonomy is offered by the Armed Forces Museums. Norwegian Museum authors unite the mythological basis of Scandinavism to a Grand Narrative of Norway, distancing it from the earlier cultural and political dominance of Denmark and Swedenm, saluting the medieval kingdom of Norway. |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2012 |
| No. of pages: | 38 |
| Pages: | 179-216 |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings |
| ISSN (print): | 1650-3686 |
| ISSN (online): | 1650-3740 |
| File: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/078/013/ecp12078013.pdf |
| Available: | 2012-10-30 |
| Publisher: | Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet |
|
REFERENCE TO THIS PAGE | Lill Eilertsen (2012). Freedom Loving Northerners: Norwegian Independence As Narrated in Three National Museums, Great Narratives of the Past Traditions and Revisions in National Museums: Conference Proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Paris 28 June – 1 July & 25–26 November 2011 http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp_article/index.en.aspx?issue=078;article=013 (accessed 5/19/2013) |
|
Ph.D., Lic. Theses
