Title: The Vikings and the Victorians : inventing the old north in nineteenth-century Britain /
Authors: Wawn, Andrew.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer,
Year: 2000
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Vikings in literature.; Medievalism Great Britain History; Old Norse literature Appreciation Great Britain.; English literature Scandinavian influences; Sagas Appreciation Great Britain; Vikings Historiography.; Vikings in art.; Invention (Rhetoric) History; Great Britain Civilization; Europe, Northern In literature.
Abstract: "This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. Walter Scott, William Morris, Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling appear alongside amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isle of Wight; the material examined, published and unpublished, includes novels, poems, lectures, periodicals, saga-stead travelogues, philology, art and music. Andrew Wawn draws this wide range of source material together to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the viking age in nineteenth-century Britain."--Jacket.