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Viking America

By Geraldine Barnes

Viking America

By Geraldine Barnes

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The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic land which its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, 'Groenlendinga saga' ('Saga of Greenlanders') and 'Eiriks saga rauda' ('Saga of Eric the Red'), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same period in English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns.
GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.
Product details
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2001-02-01
Publication Date:
2001-03-08
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0859916081
ISBN13:
9780859916080
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
482 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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