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I am a Viking! DNA, popular culture and the construction of geneticized identity

open access: yesNew Genetics and Society, 2021
In this article, we analyze how genetic genealogy reshapes popular notions of historical identity, as it facilitates a genetically informed understanding of ethnicity and ancestry.
Daniel Strand, Anna Källén
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Kensington Runestone and Its Literary Life [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2018
The stone covered with runes was discovered in 1898 on the farm of a Swedish immigrant Olof Ohman near Kensington, MN. The inscription told of the Scandinavians' short stint in this land. One day some of them went fishing.
Andrey V. Korovin
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Shippey, Tom. 2022. Beowulf and the North before the Vikings. Leeds: Arc Humanities. Pp. 127. ISBN 9781802700138.

open access: yesSELIM, 2023
Book review of Shippey, Tom. 2022. Beowulf and the North before the Vikings. Leeds: Arc Humanities. Pp. 127. ISBN 9781802700138.
Dennis Cronan
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dios de sanación y de destino

open access: yesActio Nova, 2020
En estos últimos años, la historia y la cultura germánica de la época vikinga han visto incrementada su presencia en el medio audiovisual, tal y como demuestra la aparición de la serie Vikings (2013).
Sergio Fernández Moreno
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Instances of Interactions and Conflicts in the North Sea in Medieval Times, with an Emphasis on Frisia

open access: yesLea, 2023
In the Early Middle Ages, the North Sea region – particularly the Frisian territory – served as the arena for deep and requent contacts among the Germanic tribes settled on the coastal regions. This contribution aims to analyse samples of sources ranging
Concetta Giliberto
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Viking Quest - an Epic Tale of Loot and Legend

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2002
Sounding rather more akin to a promotional release for the Tony Curtis/Kirk Douglas film The Vikings, Viking Quest is another BBC undertaking. From Julian Richards' latest offering, The Blood of the Vikings, this game centres on putting together a crew ...
Richard Osgood
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"Someday Our Gods Will Be Friends" : The VIKINGS Series as Embodiment of Religion and Liquefaction of Meaning

open access: yesJournal for Religion, Film and Media, 2020
This article reflects on the recent television series Vikings (CA/IE, 2013–) from a practical-theological standpoint. It addresses the series as a serious expression of the relationship between film and religion.
Erwich, René
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Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées

open access: yesCriminocorpus, 2020
Many stereotypes run through the historiography on Vikings and violence. This article proposes to reassess the fate of the captives during the Viking raids in the British Isles through a non-exhaustive corpus.
Jean-Louis Parmentier
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Viking Wars

open access: yesViking Special Volumes, 2021
This article was first published in  "Vol. 84 No. 1 (2021)" of Norsk Arkeologisk Årbok in 2021. In 2025 it was re-published in the first issue of Viking Special Volumes.
Karoline Kjesrud, Frode Iversen
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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper.
Collard, Mark   +2 more
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