From Iceland to the Americas
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Leif Eriksson
Mythology
Norse gods
Old Norse sagas
Poetic Edda
Popular culture
Reception studies
Vinland
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- ISBN 9781526128751
- Weight: 503g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland
