Islands in the West
Vient de paraître : Matthias Egeler, Islands in the West : Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination, Turnhout, Brepols, 2017 (Medieval Voyaging, 4). Présentation : This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-...
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Online Access: | http://voyages.hypotheses.org/877 |
Summary: | Vient de paraître : Matthias Egeler, Islands in the West : Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination, Turnhout, Brepols, 2017 (Medieval Voyaging, 4). Présentation : This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine otherworlds of blessedness and immortality. Taking the mythologization of the Viking Age discovery of North America in the earliest extant account of Vínland (‘Wi. |
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