The Vikings reimagined : reception, recovery, engagement /

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Imprint:	Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2019] © 2019
Description:	x, 274 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Northern medieval world : on the margins of Europe Northern medieval world.
Subject:	Vikings -- Congresses. Middle Ages in popular culture -- Congresses. Vikings. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12031061

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Other authors / contributors:	Birkett, Tom, editor. Dale, Roderick, editor.
ISBN:	1501518151 9781501518157
Notes:	Papers from a conference of the same name held at University College Cork on 25-26 November 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Rediscovering the Vikings 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Tom Birkett
Vikings! / M.J. Driscoll
My Vikings and Real Vikings : drama, documentary, and historical consultancy / Neil Price
(Re)discovering the Vikings in Poland : from nineteenth-century Romantics to contemporary warriors / Leszek Gardela
Women in Viking reenactment / Klaudia Karpińska
Who's afraid of an electric torch? Reimagining gender and the Viking world in contemporary picturebooks / Jessica Clare Hancock
The terrible Njorl's saga : comedic reimaginings of the Íslendingasögur from the Victorians to the present day / Thomas Spray
The one that got away in Old Norse myth, Moby-Dick, and the work of Hugh McDonald / Heather O'Donoghue
Death ere the afternoon : Jómsvíkinga saga and a scene in Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls / Richard North
"(No more) reaving, roving, raiding, or raping" : the ironborn in George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire and HOB's Game of thrones / Carolyne Larrington
A saga king in a Finnish Beijing opera / Kendra Willson
"Pick up rune" : the use of runes in digital games / Maja Bäckvall
From barbarian to brand : the Vikings as a marketing tool / Roderick Dale
Raiding the Vikings : how does Ireland consume its Viking heritage? / Rebecca Boyd
The great Viking fake-off : the cultural legacy of Norse voyages to North America Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Afterword : tell these stories yourself / Kevin Crossley-Holland.

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