folk history

They might be right about that, but the oft-repeated folk history is wrong.

Valdimar Johannsson, the director of “Lamb,” a new Icelandic film about a couple’s animal-child, said Icelanders understand their folk history “as a normal thing, and don’t consider it to be supernatural or horror.”

The response was mostly positive, but there were enough boos from the audience and conflicts backstage — Wein rejected the legend that Seeger tried to cut the power cables to Dylan’s amps — to make Dylan’s appearance a landmark in rock and folk history.

But Deirdre Nuttall, the author of the book Different and the Same: A Folk History of the Protestants of Independent Ireland, says the violence in Northern Ireland also played a role in the community's sense of itself.

“What he really captured lies in what he called the elementals, which are the people of the earth. How they make their living from the land and how they lived on the land and heat and that’s what I wanted to capture in my work. I wanted to be able to tell Delaware’s folk history and not the fancy DuPont history or that kind of thing, but just the regular little events and things that Delaware people like,” she said.