Ship-Men and Slaughter-Wolves

Pirate Polities in the Viking Age

Bibliographic Data

ID23244169
AuthorsNeil Price (University of Aberdeen, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages51-68
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePersistent Piracy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137352866_3
OpenAlexW2488626965
ISBN9781137352866
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited3

The Vikings enjoy a public name recognition shared with few other ancient cultures today.1 This hold on the imagination has a long pedigree, extending back to the late Middle Ages when they formed the stuff of saga-writing and legend, through their rediscovery during the Enlightenment and their gradual incorporation into the political fan- tasies of National Romanticism. When these were in turn usurped by the darker fictions of the Third Reich and its spurious myths of racial origins, the academic study of the Viking Age would take decades to recover from the contamination. Perennially drawing new audiences through exhibitions, documentaries and books, today they also saturate our popular culture in the form of everything from comics and movies to football teams, brand names, shipping lines and even spacecraft.

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Comics · Enlightenment · Exhibition · German · Legend · Literature · Media studies · Mythology · Nazi Germany · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Romanticism · Sociology · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution

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