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Vikings and the Western Frontier

Wienberg, Jes LU orcid (2015) p.289-294
Abstract
The article investigates how and why the Vikings became world-famous. The point of departure is the World Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where an icon for the Viking, a replica of the Gokstad ship, arrived the very same day as Frederick Jackson Turner presented his frontier thesis. The origin of the word Viking, the romantic revival of the Viking, the creation of the Viking Age and the criticism of the Viking and the Viking Age is discussed. Finally the article argues that the Viking and the American frontiersman represent similar characters. The concept of the Viking has spread worldwide as an expression of an ideology central to the West.
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subject
keywords
Vikings, Viking Age
host publication
Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh - Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh
editor
Larsson, Lars ; Ekengren, Fredrik ; Helgesson, Bertil and Söderberg, Bengt
pages
289 - 294
publisher
Archaeopress
external identifiers
  • scopus:85113908592
ISBN
978 1 78491 132 4
9781784911317
language
English
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yes
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00396b1e-fe4a-446b-81d4-305293c1f26a (old id 7762403)
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2016-04-04 11:52:15
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  abstract     = {{The article investigates how and why the Vikings became world-famous. The point of departure is the World Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where an icon for the Viking, a replica of the Gokstad ship, arrived the very same day as Frederick Jackson Turner presented his frontier thesis. The origin of the word Viking, the romantic revival of the Viking, the creation of the Viking Age and the criticism of the Viking and the Viking Age is discussed. Finally the article argues that the Viking and the American frontiersman represent similar characters. The concept of the Viking has spread worldwide as an expression of an ideology central to the West.}},
  author       = {{Wienberg, Jes}},
  booktitle    = {{Small Things – Wide Horizons : Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hårdh}},
  editor       = {{Larsson, Lars and Ekengren, Fredrik and Helgesson, Bertil and Söderberg, Bengt}},
  isbn         = {{978 1 78491 132 4}},
  keywords     = {{Vikings; Viking Age}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{289--294}},
  publisher    = {{Archaeopress}},
  title        = {{Vikings and the Western Frontier}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/30095669/Haardh2015VikingsFrontier.pdf}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}