Chapter 5. Viking Reputation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iv
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction. The End 1
5. Chapter 1. Age-Related Categories 17
6. Chapter 2. Generic Categories 27
7. Chapter 3. Transformational Fantasy 39
8. Chapter 4. Horned Helmets and Comic Anachronism 47
9. Chapter 5. Viking Reputation 53
10. Chapter 6. Runes and Magic 57
11. Chapter 7. The Power of Story 65
12. Chapter 8. Race and Ethnicity 73
13. Chapter 9. Heroism 81
14. Chapter 10. Viking Masculinity 91
15. Chapter 11. Viking Femininity 97
16. Chapter 12. Viking Sex and Gender 103
17. Chapter 13. Bowdlerization 111
18. Chapter 14. Sexuality 117
19. Chapter 15. Ecological Threat 125
20. Chapter 16. Norse Medievalism in Alan Early’s Father of Lies Trilogy 129
21. Chapter 17. Avoiding the End of Days: K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr’s Blackwell Pages 143
22. Chapter 18. Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase Series and Norse Medievalism 161
23. Conclusion 185
24. Select Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works 189
25. Index 193