The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery, Engagement

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The Vikings Reimagined

Reception, Recovery, Engagement

Edited by: Tom Birkett and Roderick Dale

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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The Northern Medieval World

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The Vikings Reimagined explores the changing perception of Norse and Viking cultures across different cultural forms, and the complex legacy of the Vikings in the present day. Bringing together experts in literature, history and heritage engagement, this highly interdisciplinary collection aims to reconsider the impact of the discipline of Old Norse Viking Studies outside the academy and to broaden our understanding of the ways in which the material and textual remains of the Viking Age are given new meanings in the present. The diverse collection draws attention to the many roles that the Vikings play across contemporary culture: from the importance of Viking tourism, to the role of Norse sub-cultures in the formation of local and international identities. Together these collected essays challenge the academy to rethink its engagement with popular reiterations of the Vikings and to reassess the position afforded to ‘reception’ within the discipline.

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Tom Birkett, University College Cork, Ireland; Roderick Dale, University of Nottingham, UK.

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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of Figures
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Introduction
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Tom Birkett
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1. Vikings!
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M. J. Driscoll
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2. My Vikings and Real Vikings: Drama, Documentary, and Historical Consultancy
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Neil Price
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3. (Re)discovering the Vikings in Poland: From Nineteenth-Century Romantics to Contemporary Warriors
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Leszek Gardeła
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4. Women in Viking Reenactment
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Klaudia Karpińska
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5. Who’s Afraid of an Electric Torch? Reimagining Gender and the Viking World in Contemporary Picturebooks
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Jessica Clare Hancock
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6. The Terrible Njorl’s Saga: Comedic Reimaginings of the Íslendingasögur from the Victorians to the Present Day
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Thomas Spray
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7. The One that Got Away in Old Norse Myth, Moby-Dick, and the Work of Hugh MacDiarmid
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Heather O’Donoghue
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8. Death ere the Afternoon: Jómsvíkinga saga and a Scene in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Richard North
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9. “(No More) Reaving, Roving, Raiding, or Raping”: The Ironborn in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones
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Carolyne Larrington
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10. A Saga King in a Finnish Beijing Opera
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Kendra Willson
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11. “Pick up Rune”: The Use of Runes in Digital Games
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Maja Bäckvall
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12. From Barbarian to Brand: The Vikings as a Marketing Tool
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Roderick Dale
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13. Raiding the Vikings: How Does Ireland Consume Its Viking Heritage?
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Rebecca Boyd
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14. The Great Viking Fake-Off: The Cultural Legacy of Norse Voyages to North America
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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
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Afterword: Tell These Stories Yourself
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Index
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eBook published on:

January 20, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9781501513886

Hardcover published on:

January 20, 2020

Hardcover ISBN:

9781501518157

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Front matter:

10

Main content:

274

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4

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11

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513886

eBook ISBN: 9781501513886

Hardcover ISBN: 9781501518157

Keywords for this book

Vikings; Viking Age; Old Norse; Identity; Rediscovery

Audience(s) for this book

Mediävisten, Skandinavisten, Historiker

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The Vikings Reimagined

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

1. Vikings!

2. My Vikings and Real Vikings: Drama, Documentary, and Historical Consultancy

3. (Re)discovering the Vikings in Poland: From Nineteenth-Century Romantics to Contemporary Warriors

4. Women in Viking Reenactment

5. Who’s Afraid of an Electric Torch? Reimagining Gender and the Viking World in Contemporary Picturebooks

6. The Terrible Njorl’s Saga: Comedic Reimaginings of the Íslendingasögur from the Victorians to the Present Day

7. The One that Got Away in Old Norse Myth, Moby-Dick, and the Work of Hugh MacDiarmid

8. Death ere the Afternoon: Jómsvíkinga saga and a Scene in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls

9. “(No More) Reaving, Roving, Raiding, or Raping”: The Ironborn in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones

10. A Saga King in a Finnish Beijing Opera

11. “Pick up Rune”: The Use of Runes in Digital Games

12. From Barbarian to Brand: The Vikings as a Marketing Tool

13. Raiding the Vikings: How Does Ireland Consume Its Viking Heritage?

14. The Great Viking Fake-Off: The Cultural Legacy of Norse Voyages to North America

Afterword: Tell These Stories Yourself

Index

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