Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now ...

• Main Author: Steel, Karl
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: unknown 2014
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching; Literature, Medieval; Newfoundland; L'Anse aux Meadows
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17613/dkhkm-p5k41; https://works.hcommons.org/doi/10.17613/dkhkm-p5k41

Here's a key paragraph: "This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present...