Gothicismus

The name is derived from Jordanes 's account of the Gothic Urheimat in Scandinavia ( Scandza ), and the Swedish Gothicists liked to stress the that the Goths were the same as the Geat s, whereas the Danes wanted to identify the Goths with the Jutes . The movement took pride in the Gothic tradition that the Ostrogoth s and their king Theodoric The Great who assumed power in the Roman Empire had Scandinavian ancestry.

This pride was expressed as early as the Medieval Chronicle s, where chroniclers wrote about the Goths as the ancestors of the Scandinavians, and it permeated the writings of Johannes Magnus ('' Historia De Omnibus Gothorum Seonumque Regibus '') and his brother Olaus Magnus ('' Historia De Gentibus Septentrionalibus ''). Both works had a large impact on contemporary scholarship.

During the 17th Century , Danes and Swedes competed for the collection and publication of Iceland Manuscript s, Norse Saga s, and the two Edda s. This became a new injection of the idea of the greatness and heroism of the old Geat s (in this sense, the ancient Germanic Tribe s). The pride culminated in the publication of Olaus Rudbeck 's '' Atland Eller Manheim '' (1–4 ( 1679 – 1702 ), where, in the scholarly tradition of his time, he claimed that Sweden was identical to Atlantis .

During the 18th Century , the movement sobered, but it resurged during the Romantic Nationalism from ca 1800 and onwards, in Denmark with writers such as Ewald , Grundtvig and Oehlenschläger , and in Sweden with Geijer and Tegnér in the Geatish Society .

In other parts of Europe, the interest in Old Norse matters were represented by the Englishman Gray , the Germans Herder and Klopstock , and by the Suiss Mallet .

In the Architecture , Gothicismus had a prime during the 1860 s and the 1870 s, but it continued into ca 1900 . The interest in Old Norse matters led to the creation of a special architecture in wood inspired by the Stave Church es, and it was in Norway that the style had its largest impact. The details that are often found in this style are dragon heads, and it is often called ''dragon style'', false Arcade s, lathed Colonnade s, protruding lofts and a ridged roof.

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