From Iceland to the Americas
Vinland and historical imagination
1st Edition
Published on 7. April 2020
304 pages
978-1-5261-2876-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. -- .
Reviews / Votes
'Anyone interested in the history of the idea of Vinland, the Vikings, and the impact these ideas had (and still have) on the historical imagination of the Americas will find ample food for thought in this volume.'- David F. Johnson (Florida State University) Arthuriana -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
5 black & white illustrations
5 black & white illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-2876-8 (9781526128768)
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Tim William Machan | Jon Karl Helgason
From Iceland to the Americas
Vinland and Historical Imagination
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04/2020
Manchester University Press
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Persons
Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
Jon Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland -- .
Jon Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland -- .
Content
Introduction
1 Vinland on the brain: remembering the Norse - Tim William Machan
Part I: Imagination and ideology
2 Journeys to the centre of the mind: Iceland in the literary and the professorial imagination - Seth Lerer
3 The 'Viking tower' in Newport, Rhode Island: fact, fiction, and film - Kevin J. Harty
4 Critiquing Columbus with the Vinland sagas - Matthew Scribner
5 Vinland and white nationalism - Verena Hoefig
Part II: Landscapes and cultural memory
6 Migration of a North Atlantic seascape: Leif Eiriksson, the 1893 World's Fair, and the Great Lakes landnam - Amy C. Mulligan
7 Norwegian-American 'missions of education' and Old Norse literature - Bergur ?orgeirsson
8 Americans in Sagaland: Iceland travel books 1854-1914 - Emily Lethbridge
9 The good sense to lose America: Vinland as remembered by Icelanders - Simon Halink
Part III: Recasting the past
10 Spectral Vikings in nineteenth-century American poetry - Angela Sorby
11 'Who is this upstart Hitler?': Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War - Jon Karl Helgason
12 'There's no going back': The Dark Knight and Balder's descent to Hel - Dustin Geeraert
13 Old Norse in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaiman's American Gods - Heather O'Donoghue
Bibliography
Index -- .
1 Vinland on the brain: remembering the Norse - Tim William Machan
Part I: Imagination and ideology
2 Journeys to the centre of the mind: Iceland in the literary and the professorial imagination - Seth Lerer
3 The 'Viking tower' in Newport, Rhode Island: fact, fiction, and film - Kevin J. Harty
4 Critiquing Columbus with the Vinland sagas - Matthew Scribner
5 Vinland and white nationalism - Verena Hoefig
Part II: Landscapes and cultural memory
6 Migration of a North Atlantic seascape: Leif Eiriksson, the 1893 World's Fair, and the Great Lakes landnam - Amy C. Mulligan
7 Norwegian-American 'missions of education' and Old Norse literature - Bergur ?orgeirsson
8 Americans in Sagaland: Iceland travel books 1854-1914 - Emily Lethbridge
9 The good sense to lose America: Vinland as remembered by Icelanders - Simon Halink
Part III: Recasting the past
10 Spectral Vikings in nineteenth-century American poetry - Angela Sorby
11 'Who is this upstart Hitler?': Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War - Jon Karl Helgason
12 'There's no going back': The Dark Knight and Balder's descent to Hel - Dustin Geeraert
13 Old Norse in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaiman's American Gods - Heather O'Donoghue
Bibliography
Index -- .
