Description
Book SynopsisRediscovering the Vikings explores the changing perception of the Vikings across different cultural forms and reassesses the many complex roles that Norse cultures play in the contemporary world.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction by Tom Birkett
1. Vikings! by M. J. Driscoll
2. My Vikings and Real Vikings: Drama, Documentary and Historical Consultancy by Neil Price
3. (Re)discovering the Vikings in Poland: From Nineteenth-Century Romantics to Contemporary Warriors by Leszek Gardeła
4. Women in Viking Reenactment by Klaudia Karpińska
5. Who’s Afraid of an Electric Torch?: Reimagining Gender and the Viking World in Contemporary Picturebooks by Jessica Clare Hancock
6. The Terrible Njorl’s Saga: Comedic Reimaginings of the Íslendingasögur from the Victorians to the Present Day by Thomas Spray
7. The One that Got Away in Old Norse Myth, Moby-Dick, and the Work of Hugh MacDiarmid by Heather O’Donoghue
8. Death ere the afternoon: Jómsvíkinga saga and a Scene in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls by Richard North
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 by Carolyne Larrington
10. A Saga King in a Finnish Beijing Opera by Kendra Willson
11. "Pick up Rune": The Use of Runes in Digital Games by Maja Bäckvall
12. From Barbarian to Brand: The Vikings as a Marketing Tool by Roderick Dale
13. Raiding the Vikings: How does Ireland Consume Its Viking Heritage? by Rebecca Boyd
14. The Great Viking Fake-Off: The Cultural Legacy of Norse Voyages to North America by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Afterword: Tell These Stories Yourself by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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