Edda. Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research is a magazine for research on Scandinavian literature

Scandinavian literature

Scandinavia literature or Nordic literature is the literature in the languages of the Nordic countries of Northern Europe. The Nordic countries include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway , Sweden and associated autonomous territories .The majority of these nations and regions use North Germanic...

, and for literary researchers in the Scandinavian countries. It was founded by Gerhard Gran

Gerhard Gran

Gerhard von der Lippe Gran was a Norwegian literary historian, professor, magazine editor, essayist and biographer.-Personal life:...

 in 1914. The magazine's first publishing house was Aschehoug

Aschehoug

H. Aschehoug & Co , commonly known as Aschehoug, is one of the largest independent publishing companies in Norway. -History:...

. Gran edited the magazine until his death in 1925. Literary historian Francis Bull

Francis Bull

Francis Bull was a Norwegian literary historian, professor at the University of Oslo for more than thirty years, essayist and speaker, and magazine editor.-Early and personal life:...

 was editor-in-chief from 1925 to 1960. Edvard Beyer

Edvard Beyer

Edvard Freydar Beyer was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, and professor at the University of Oslo from 1958 to 1990.-Early and personal life:...

 edited the magazine from 1962 to 1972. Åse Hiorth Lervik

Åse Hiorth Lervik

Åse Hiorth Lervik was a Norwegian literary researcher. Her doctorate thesis from 1971 was a study on Henrik Ibsen's play Brand. She was professor at the University of Tromsø from 1972. She was secretary for Edda. Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research from 1962, and editor of the journal from...

 was editor from 1972 to 1985.

Recent years

In recent years the editorial responsibility for the journal has circulated between Universities in Norway. It was edited from the University of Trondheim from 1991 to 1995, and from the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 from 1996 to 2000. From 2001 to 2005 the address was at the University of Agder, Kristiansand

Kristiansand

-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

. From 2006 the journal has been edited from the University of Tromsø

University of Tromsø

The University of Tromsø is the world's northernmost university. Located in the city of Tromsø, Norway, it was established in 1968, and opened in 1972. It is one of eight universities in Norway. The University of Tromsø is the largest research and educational institution in northern Norway...

, by the troika Ole Karlsen, Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp and Henning Howlid Wærp.

Special issues

Two recent special issues were 4/2004, which includes several articles originally given as papers at the conference The Gendered Body, Aesthetics and Experience at the University of Agder, and 6/2006, which was dedicated to Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

 at the 100th anniversary of his death.

Research articles

Works that have been studied in recent years include classical texts by Ibsen, Amalie Skram

Amalie Skram

Amalie Skram was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. She moved to Denmark in 1894 where she settled in Copenhagen with her husband, the Danish writer Erik Skram...

, Arne Garborg

Arne Garborg

Arne Garborg, born Aadne Eivindsson Garborg was a Norwegian writer.Garborg championed the use of Landsmål , as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into it...

, August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...

, Henrik Wergeland

Henrik Wergeland

Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist...

, Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul....

, Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas

[Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Born in Vinje, Telemark, Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II....

 and Bellman

Carl Michael Bellman

was a Swedish poet and composer. Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a very important influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature in general, to this day....

, and texts by the contemporaries Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse is a Norwegian author and dramatist.Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart . His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry,...

, Dag Solstad

Dag Solstad

Dag Solstad is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into several languages. He has written nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics’ Award three times...

 and Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen, born 21 September 1953 in Oslo, is a Norwegian author.Saabye Christensen was raised in the Skillebekk neighbourhood of Oslo, but lived for many years in Sortland in northern Norway; both places play a major role in his work...

. Other subjects discussed include Literature from Greenland, and Scandinavian literature in England.