Friday, April 14, 2017
Pity the Poor Viking
Allen J. Frantzen, "Viking," Anglo-Saxon Keywords (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 274-277 (at 274):
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Pity the Viking. Modern scholarship, relentless dismantler of stereotypes, has trimmed his blond hair, disputed the blueness of his eyes, and taken away his horned helmet (Loyn 1977:10; Frank 2000).References:
- H.R. Loyn, The Vikings in Britain (London: B.T. Batsford, 1977)
- Roberta Frank, "The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet," in Michael Dallapiazza et al., edd., International Scandinavian and Medieval Studies in Memory of Gerd Wolfgang Weber (Trieste: Edizioni Parnaso, 2000), pp. 199-208
