Scandinavist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scandinavists
Etymology: For the ideology, from Scandinav(ism) + -ist; in the meaning scholar of Scandinavian studies, Scandinav(ia) + -ist with analogy with earlier Romanist, Germanist, Anglist; likely reinforced by German Skandinavist.
Senses: examples: text: But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire.
ref: 2009, Eirik Vassenden, “Norway: The Province and its Metropolities”, in Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, editors, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volume 3, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 658:
glosses: Alternative form of Scandinavianist (“supporter of Scandinavism”).
examples: text: But his successor, Dr. Daniel B. Shumway, Professor of Germanic Philology and head of the German department, was just as staunch a Scandinavist as his predecessor.
ref: 1937, A. J. Uppvall, “The Study of Scandinavian Languages and LIteratures at the University of Pennsylvania, 1895-1935: A Retrospect and a Prospect”, in Scandinavian Studies and Notes, volume 14, number 7, →JSTOR, page 179:
text: Your reviewer, being more particularly a Scandinavist, would like to add a few details from his own field.
ref: 1947, L. M. Hollander, “Huskult og Hinsidighetstro. Nye Studier over Fedrekult i Norge, by E. Birkeli [Book Review]”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 46, number 2, →JSTOR, page 212:
text: The old editions are no longer adequate, and this handsome volume should replace its predecessors on the shelves of every Scandinavist and all libraries with a Scandinavian or drama section.
ref: 1982, Laurie Thompson, “Literature”, in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, volume 44, →JSTOR, page 1087:
text: Basing his analysis on the work of the famous Danish Scandinavist, Axel Olrik, McTurk concluded that it is not so much the general style of “Cynewulf and Cyneheard” which bears the stamp of orality, as its frequently obeying the laws which Olrik had formulated with respect to the unilinear progression of oral narrative.
ref: 1997, Rolf H, Jr Bremmer, “The Germanic Context of "Cynewulf and Cyneheard" Revisited”, in Neophilologus, volume 81, number 3, Dordrecht: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISSN, page 446:
text: All together, it is an outstanding work of reference, which every Scandinavist will want to have on his/her worktable.
ref: 1998, Edgar C Polome, “Norsk Referanse-Grammatik, edited by Jan Terje Faarlund, et al. [Book Review]”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies, volume 26, number 3/4, Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, →ISSN, page 500:
text: Twenty-eight contributors from Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the USA (one classical scholar, one Scandinavist and one Byzantinologist among them) presented the Russianist from the University of Bergen (Norway) with their essays on Russian folklore, medieval Russian literature, Gogol, Leskov, Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Pasternak and Bakhtin, as well as on other related cultural topics.
ref: 1998, Andrei Rogachevskii, “Celebrating Creativity: Essays in Honour of Jostein Bortnes, edited by Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ingunn Lunde. [Book Review]”, in Europe-Asia Studies, volume 50, number 5, Abingdon, →ISSN, page 931:
text: The Soviet philologist, Scandinavist Mikhail Steblin-Kamensky noted that “myth is not a genre, an indefinite form, but a content, as if independent of the form in which it is expressed. [...]"
ref: 2021, Bagdagul N Zhanibekova, Beisenova, Zhainagul S, “Anuar Alimzhanov’s Aesthetic Position and its Artistic Realization”, in International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, volume 9, number 2, Raleigh: International Journal of Society, Culture and Language, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022, page 205:
qualifier: humanities
glosses: Alternative form of Scandinavianist (“specialist in Scandinavian studies”).