Vikings in the Modern Imagination

Julian D. Richards (2005). Vikings: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [E-book available via UB; hard copies in Humanistiska coursebooks]

The Vikings Reimagined, ed. Tom Birkett and Roderick Dale (2020). [E-book available via UB]

Caitlin Ellis (2021). “Remembering the Vikings: Ancestry, cultural memory and geographical variation”. History Compass 2021:19. [Open Access via UB]

Heather O’Donoghue (2007). “From Runic Inscriptions to Runic Gymnastics”. In Old Norse Made New: Essays on the post-Medieval reception of Old Norse literature and culture, ed. David Clark and Carl Phelpstead. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research. 101-118. [ https://vsnr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/VSNR_Studies_ONMN-copyright-restr.pdf ]

Dimitra Fimi (2007). “Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture”. In Old Norse Made New: Essays on the post-Medieval reception of Old Norse literature and culture, ed. David Clark and Carl Phelpstead. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research. 83-100. [ https://vsnr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/VSNR_Studies_ONMN-copyright-restr.pdf ]

Additional texts will be provided by the instructor.