Slaying, pillaging, burning, ravishing, and thus gratifying a laudable taste for adventure
Tom Shippey, 8 June 1995
Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga
edited by Andrew Wawn.
Hisarlik, 342 pp., £35, October 1994,1 874312 18 4 Show More
edited by Andrew Wawn.
Hisarlik, 342 pp., £35, October 1994,
Heritage and Prophecy: Grundtvig and the English-Speaking World
edited by A.M. Allchin.
Canterbury, 330 pp., £25, January 1994,9781853110856 Show More
edited by A.M. Allchin.
Canterbury, 330 pp., £25, January 1994,
“... The ‘Viking’ is one of the strongest images in contemporary popular culture. As Régis Boyer remarks in his essay in Northern Antiquity on the French reception of Old Norse literature, Vikings look out, under their now traditional horned helmets, from every herring tin in the supermarket, while a great part of the population of Normandy marks itself off from the Parisian riff-raff by putting little longship stickers on their cars ... ”
