In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXI] 2017
► pp. xi–xiv
Published online: 7 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxi.lof
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxi.lof
List of figures
Figure 1:Global view of the Nordic region. The highlighted areas include Greenland,
Iceland, the Faroe Islands (circled), Svalbard, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and
Denmark. Map: Creative Commons.
Figure 2:Map of the Nordic region emphasizing the Baltic Sea (altered to b/w version).
Author: Nzeemin, NordNordWest. Creative Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relief_Map_of_Baltic_Sea.png.
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Figure 3:Topographic rendering of the Nordic region, emphasizing the North Sea. Image:
Anton Balazh/Shutterstock
Figure 4:Auguste Mayer’s lithograph illustration of Snæfellsjökull seen from Reykjavík
at midnight (1836)
Figure 5:Carl Emanuel Larsen’s 1845 illustration, a more romanticized depiction that
expands the size of the glacier and emphasizes the height of the peaks.
Figure 6:Book cover for Leyndardómar Snæfellsjökuls
Figure 7:Drawing by Christian Beyer, presumably from around 1870, imagining H.C.
Andersen in the Gurre landscape. Image from C.M. Smidt, Gurre
(København: Gyldendal, 1948), 2.
Figure 8:Contemporary view of the modest ruins remaining at Gurre: the demise of a
literary place? Photo: Steffen Hoejager/Shutterstock
Figure 9:Illustration from Christian Richardt’s geographical poem Vort
Land.
Figure 10:Lithograph by Emil Bærentzen showing the coast near Bovbjerg in West Jutland,
from the 1856 illustrated album Danmark.
Figure 11:Illustration of Skagens Odde by C. Neumann that accompanied an early serial
pre-printing of Goldschmidt’s travelogue in Illustreret Tidende
in 1865.
Figure 12:View from the National Tourist Route at Aurlandsfjellet in western Norway.
Photo: Daria Medvedeva/Shutterstock
Figure 13:Cultivated, undulating landscape in Jutland, Denmark. Photo:
kimson/Shutterstock
Figure 14:View from the Villa San Michele on Capri. Photo: Berthold Werner/Creative
Commons. Adjusted to b/w version. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Figure 15:Juxtaposition of two views of the Blue Grotto: (top) view from a painting by
Friedrich Thøming, The Blue Grotto, Capri (1833) Oil on canvas,
13.1 x 21.5 cm. Image: Creative Commons; (bottom) contemporary tourist photo of
the Blue Grotto, Capri, Italy, Photo: Gimas/Shutterstock
Figure 16:Shoreline of Saimaa Lake in southeastern Finland. Photo: Aleksey
Stemmer/Shutterstock
Figure 17:Frozen waterscape in Finnish winter. Photo: marcela
novotna/Shutterstock
Figure 18:
View from Landsort in the southern Stockholm archipelago, a Swedish
"uttermost, barren isle" that substituted for the coastline near Grimstad,
Norway. Photo: Arild Vågen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
Figure 19:The fishing village of Sør-Gjæslingan on the Norwegian coast. Photo: Kenneaal
(Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
Figure 20:The island of Hasslö in southern Sweden’s Blekinge archipelago (altered to
b/w). Photo: Andreas Faessler. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Figure 21:Cottages in the Stockholm archipelago. Photo: anse/Shutterstock
Figure 22:Faroese waterscape. Photo: Anette Andersen/Shutterstock
Figure 23:Map showing the Norwegian coastline’s interface with the sea. Photo: Peter
Hermes Furian/Shutterstock
Figure 24:The Marieholm governor’s residence in Mariestad, Sweden. Photo: author’s
own
Figure 25:Panorama of Helsinki, seen from the top of the St. Nicholas’ Church
(currently the Helsinki Cathedral). Photographer: Signe Brander, 1909/Helsinki
City Museum
Figure 26:Emil Bønnelycke’s "Berlin" poem, as published in the journal
Klingen 1.9–10 (June – July 1918): [183].
Figure 27:New York City’s Madison Avenue, pedestrian view. Photo: author’s own.
Figure 28:Manhattan high-rise buildings. Photo: author’s own.
Figure 29:Hans Hertervig, Borgøya (1867), oil on canvas, 61.5cm x
69.5cm. National Gallery (Oslo); photo: Jacques Lathion. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Figure 30:Condeep oil platform being hauled out to sea in 1974. Photo: Leif Berge/Norsk
Oljemuseum.
Figure 31:European lightscape at night, with small pricks of light showing in the North
Sea oil fields as well. Image: stockmdm/Shutterstock
Figure 32:Total Cesium 137 Deposition from both nuclear tests as well as the Chernobyl
accident as of 1998. With courtesy of De Cort et al. (1998).
Figure 33:Still image from the opening sequence of Jarl’s
Hotet/Uhkkádus showing the sudden intrusion of a train into
the landscape.
Figure 34:Still image from Hotet/Uhkkádus showing the slaughtered
corpses of contaminated reindeer being helicoptered away for disposal.
Figure 35:Cover from Ingrid Storholmen’s book Tsjernobylfortellinger,
representing the spread of radioactive fallout from Chernobyl up over
Scandinavia.
Figure 36:View of the Øresund Bridge seen from the south on the Swedish side. Photo:
kimson/Shutterstock
Figure 37:Still image from Sossen, arkitekten och det skruvade huset
(2006). Regional memory under contruction in the shape of Calatrava’s Turning
Torso building in Malmö.
Figure 38:
Still image from the opening credit sequence of Bron/Broen
(The Bridge), Season Two.
Figure 39:Screen shot of the opening, schizophrenic sequence in
Blackout.
Figure 40:The caterpillar structure of Blackout (© Michael
Valeur).
Figure 41:Screenshot from the game Max Payne.
Figure 42:Manuscript page from the first draft of Johan Turi’s Muitalus sámiid
birra, written in Finnish in 1910. This passage describes reindeer
roundup techniques. Photo: Author’s own.
Figure 43:View of Borgarfjǫrðr in Iceland. Photo: CoolKengzz/Shutterstock
Figure 44:View of the Þingvellir plain in Iceland. Photo: Oleksandr
Lipko/Shutterstock
Figure 45:Detail map showing the island of Gotland off the Swedish coast. Photo:
Artalis/Shutterstock
Figure 46:View of the South Dakota prairie landscape, whose vast expanses have no close
corrolary in the Nordic region. Photo: pzig98/Shutterstock
Figure 47:The "round, fertile hills" of the Nebraska farming landscape. Photo: Weldon
Schloneger/Shutterstock
Figure 48:One form of "settling" – taking land – in the cultivation of the
South Dakota prairie. Photo: pzig98/Shutterstock
Figure 49:Another form of "settling" – claiming place – in the Nørrebro
neighborhood of Copenhagen.
Figure 50:Title page of Aakkosia Sosialistien Lapsille (Socialist
Alphabet for Children), published by Finnish-Americans in Massachusetts.
Figure 51:Detail map showing Bornholm’s location relative to Copenhagen and the
southern Swedish coastline. Photo: Serban Bogdan/Shutterstock
Figure 52:Illustration of Hlíðarendi in Collingwood and Stefansson, p. 30.
Figure 53:Traditional seter milieu in Norway, with a primitive cabin
in a high-altitude summer pasture. Photo: Max Smolyar/Shutterstock
Figure 54:A modern Norwegian cabin in the area north of Oslo shows the evolution of the
secondary seasonal dwelling. Photo: Paul D. Smith/Shutterstock
Figure 55:Map of the provinces of southern Finland, including the regions of Savonia
and Ostrobothnia. Photo: Maria Egupova/Shutterstock
Figure 56:Map of the transnational Sámi language areas that constitute Sápmi. Photo:
Wikimedia Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License)
Figure 57:The Oseberg ship at the Viking Ship Museum on Bygdøy peninsula outside Oslo.
Photo: valeriiaarnaud/Shutterstock
Figure 58:Exterior of the Fram Museum, seen from the water of the Oslo fjord. Photo:
Nanisimova/Shutterstock
Figure 59:Woodcut illustration from Giuseppe Acerbi’s 1802 travel account.
Figure 60:
1947 Norwegian postage stamp commemorating Nansen, Amundsen, and Arctic
exploration. Photo: Slava2009/Shutterstock
Figure 61:Topographical visualization of the Arctic area north of Norway, including
Svalbard (center top) and Eastern Greenland (left). Photo: Anton
Balazh/Shutterstock
Figure 62:Position of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land in the Barents Sea/Arctic Ocean.
Photo: Serban Bogdan/Shutterstock
Figure 63:Map of Greenland, with a straight white dotted line added to the southern
portion to show Nansen’s approximate crossing route. Original photo: Serban
Bogdan/Shutterstock
Figure 64:One of Blixen’s most famous literary places – her African farm – as
it appears today in the form of the Karen Blixen Museum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Photo: TheLearningPhotographer/Shutterstock
Figure 65:A plateau landscape in the far North of Norway. Photo: Maksimillian/
Shutterstock
Figure 66:Olaus Magnus’s 1539 "Carta Marina" map, the visual predecessor to his
literary "mapping" of the North in the 1555 Historia de gentibus
septentrionalibus. Photo: Public domain from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carta_Marina.jpeg
Figure 67:Helgafell in Iceland, showing the visual "centering" of a sacralized place.
Photo: Alexey Stiop/Shutterstock
Figure 68:Burial mounds at Old Uppsala. Photo: Sophie McAuley/Shutterstock
Figure 69:Side view of the Nidaros Cathedral during the period of disrepair in the
1800s. Photo: Riksantikvaren.
Figure 70:Contemporary view of the Cathedral. Copyright: Finn Bjørklid/Creative
Commons
Figure 71:Tower at the restored Cathedral. Photo: Finn Bjørklid/Creative
Commons.
Figure 72:Jens Peter Pedersen (1836–1900), lathe turner and storyteller from Ilbjærg in
northern Jutland. A prolific source of local legends, Jens Peter lived alone in
a small house near the town of Sæby. (Photograph used by permission of Dansk
Folkemindesamling)
Figure 73:Railroad crossing in Ry, Denmark, ca. 1908. Photo: Knud Nielsen Baunsgaard/
Ry Lokalarkiv
Figure 74:Danish bog. Photo: Dhoxax/Shutterstock.com
Figure 75:Fisherman wading in the Deatnu (Tana) River in Northern Finland/Norway.
Photo: Alexei Novikov/Shutterstock
Figure 76:
The Three Graces (1993). B/w photograph of cut-up and
reassembled photograph.
Figure 77:
Krabbe/Jensen (1997). Photographic collage.
