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Dispersal, source and glass chemistry of a third tephra unit within Iceland's Settlement Layer
Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 1143-1159, October 2026.Tephra layers may be studied to understand the dynamics and sequence of past explosive volcanism. In Iceland, the distinctive Settlement Layer (AD ~877) underlies almost all archaeological evidence for the Norse Settlement and is preserved in soils across Iceland and as cryptotephra overseas.
Conner A. G. Morison +3 more
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Emigration as popular culture [PDF]
, 2005 This article explores the symbolic dimensions of emigration by enquiring into the relationship between emigration as a social phenomenon in Morocco, and Moroccan popular culture.
Sabry, T., Sabry, Tarik
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, 2019 In popular imagery, Vikings are often depicted as the ultimate lawless barbarians. Yet, as with all early medieval “barbarians” inspired by the writings of Tacitus, they have long been romanticized in Western popular culture for their supposed inherent ...
Sanmark, Alexandra, Williams, Howard
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The representation of Viking Masculinity in Dreamwork’s How to Train Your Dragon [PDF]
, 2022 Beards, Muscles, horned helmets, boats, and big axes. When reading these words there is big chance that one might think of Vikings. Because this is how Vikings have been depicted by popular culture on television, in comics and in books (Trafford 58 ...
Stienstra, G
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Meta: Religion and Its Study in a Time of Crisis
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT The academic study of religion in the United States is in crisis as departments close and tenured faculty are terminated. Simultaneously, we are witnessing not only an unprecedented alliance between religion and politics at the federal level, but the turning of many non‐religion scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals to religion as ...
Valerie Stoker
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“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2016 The trope of forced sex in romance fiction has found itself under scrutiny and pressure since the feminist movement, and even more so now as women's media, especially e-media and social media, grow increasingly concerned with what is called "rape culture"
Kim Wilkins
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Children's food activism: Reflections on knowledge and responsibility
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 2408-2427, August 2026.Abstract Children as activists have become more prominent in recent years. Their activism is manifest in relation to conspicuously political topics such as Black Lives Matter, voting rights, being able to air their views or protesting against injustices related to race, culture and other identities. Less often, if at all, do children engage politically
Sharon Hunter +7 more
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Dialogues with the dead in Vikings
, 2019 Moving pictures continue to transform popular engagements with the human past for early 21st-century audiences as for 20th-century audiences, via cinema, television and the internet. While there is a long tradition of filmic representations of the Vikings,
Klevnäs, Alison, Williams, Howard
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Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 1623-1632, August 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
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Forever Conquered: The Changing Role of Vikings in Modern and Contemporary Anglo-American Culture [PDF]
Ever since their disruption and subsequent invasion of the British Isles in the early Middle Ages, the Scandinavian raiders known as 'Vikings' have had a significant presence in English culture and its self-perceived past.
Kramer, Miles
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