The Vikings and the Victorians : inventing the old north in nineteenth-century Britain

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The Vikings and the Victorians : inventing the old north in nineteenth-century Britain

Andrew Wawn

D.S. Brewer, 2000

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-417) and index

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ISBN 9780859915755

内容説明

In many ways the Victorians invented the vikings: the term `viking', in its modern incarnation, is first recorded just thirty years before the young Princess Victoria's coronation, yet within fifty years it featured in the titlesof dozens of poems, plays, prize essays, published lectures, and parlour songs. Old Icelandic Edda and saga were used to legitimise everything from buccaneering Victorian mercantilism and imperial expansion to jury trial and women's rights, and regional consciousness flourished with the rediscovery of the viking contribution to local legend and place names.This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the Old North. Walter Scott, William Morris, Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling appear alongside amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isle of Wight; the material examined, published and unpublished, includes novels, poems, lectures, periodicals, saga-stead travel, philology, art and music. Andrew Wawn draws this wide range of source material together to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the viking age in nineteenth-century Britain.ANDREW WAWN is Professor of Anglo-Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds. Fascinating and impressively scholarly... As Wawn points out, the Victorians not only more or less invented the Vikings as we know them, but also developed this creation into what amounted to a national obsession. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

目次

  • Part 1 Hazelling the ground: of stockfish and saga
  • Georgian case-studies
  • protectors of Northern Arts. Part 2 Creating the canon: dead kings of Norroway
  • Frithiof of Sognefjord
  • George Dasent and "Burnt Njal"
  • the Eddas. Part 3 Philology and mercury: the Errander of Cheapinghaven
  • William Morris and the Old Grey North. Part 4 Living the Old North: travels, trips and trots
  • telling Viking tales
  • the invisible college. Part 5 Coda: "Vikinglife" after Victoria.
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780859916448

内容説明

The first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and popularised during thenineteenth century. The material examined - published and unpublished - includes novels, poems, plays, lectures, reviews, secondary school textbooks, saga-stead travelogues, private correspondence, art and music, as well as dictionaries, grammars and scholarly editions of eddas and sagas. In the cast of characters Sir Walter Scott, William Morris, Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling appear alongside long-forgotten amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isleof Wight. We follow the pursuit of Viking-related archaeology, dialectology, folklore, philology, runology and mythology. We see the old north used to legitimise many concepts and causes - from buccaneering mercantilism and imperial expansion to jury trial and women's rights. In drawing this wide range of materials together, Andrew Wawn presents a comprehensive and colourful account of the construction and translation of the Viking Age in Queen Victoria'sBritain. ANDREW WAWN is Professor of Anglo-Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds.

目次

  • Part 1 Hazelling the ground: of stockfish and saga
  • Georgian case-studies
  • protectors of Northern Arts. Part 2 Creating the canon: dead kings of Norroway
  • Frithiof of Sognefjord
  • George Dasent and "Burnt Njal"
  • the Eddas. Part 3 Philology and mercury: the Errander of Cheapinghaven
  • William Morris and the Old Grey North. Part 4 Living the Old North: travels, trips and trots
  • telling Viking tales
  • the invisible college. Part 5 Coda: "Vikinglife" after Victoria.

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