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Religions, 2021 This article explores the way the character Athelstan serves as a narrative focal point in the popular television series Vikings. Using this series as its main case study, it addresses the question of the ways in which the character functions as a ...
Margaret Steenbakker
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I am a Viking! DNA, popular culture and the construction of geneticized identity [PDF]
New 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. Drawing on interviews with Swedish, British and American individuals who have employed genetic ancestry tests (GATs) to prove ancestral connections to Vikings, we explore ...
Daniel Strand, Anna Källén
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Correspondences, 2014 This article provides a critical examination of the politico-religious content of the highly successful television series Game of Thrones and Vikings.
Robert A. Saunders
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Popular Vikings : constructions of Viking identity in twentieth century Britain. [PDF]
, 1998 Vikings are a vibrant part of modern popular culture. Although the Viking Age ended nearly a millennium ago, today Viking images are everywhere, functioning as tourist attractions, marketing devices, role models, and sources of regional/national pride ...
Service, Alexandra
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Locating Imagination in Popular Culture [PDF]
, 2021 Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an ...
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Humanities, 2022 For a long time now, Old Norse literature has often been colonized and misappropriated by modern right-wing political groups for their own ideology, symbolism, and public appearance. A critical reading of Icelandic sagas, however, easily demonstrates that those public strategies are very short-sighted, misleading, and outright dangerous for our ...
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DIN, 2023 In October 2022, Ubisoft’s official Twitter account for their highly popular digital game series Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft 2007–; hereafter AC) proclaimed triumphantly that «[o]ver 20 million Vikings have embarked on their epic journey to Valhalla ...
Jane Skjoldli
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Thatcherism and Popular Culture [PDF]
, 2022 Editors' introduction to a special issue on Thatcherism and popular culture.
Rami Mähkä, Kari Kallioniemi
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Race, Religion and the Medieval Norse Discovery of America
ReligionsIn 1837, Danish philologist Carl Christian Rafn published Antiquitates Americanæ, which introduced Americans to the Vinland sagas—medieval texts that suggest that Norse explorers “discovered” North America around the turn of the first millennium.
Zachary J. Melton
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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