| Fascinating and impressively scholarly...a remarkable achievement. Times Literary Supplement This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and popularised during the nineteenth century. The material includes novels, poems, plays, lectures, reviews, secondary school text-books, saga-stead travelogues, private correspondence, art and music, as well as dictionaries, grammars and scholarly editions of eddas and sagas.
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