Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Searching for the Voice of the Nation -- Chapter 1 The Manuscripts of Grünberg and Königinhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation -- Chapter 2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered -- Chapter 3 The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate -- Chapter 4 János Arany's Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian Mythology -- Chapter 5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalán by Vörösmarty -- Part 2 Inventing a Past -- Chapter 6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity -- Chapter 7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Sámuel Literáti Nemes -- Chapter 8 Excellent Scholar-Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase -- Chapter 9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities -- Part 3 "Ancient" Objects: Fakes and Fantasies -- Chapter 10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries -- Chapter 11 Agilulf, "The Nonexistent Knight" and the Forging of the Italian "Germanic" Past -- Chapter 12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania -- Chapter 13 Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius -- Chapter 14 The New York Cloisters: A Forgery? -- Index of Proper Names.