The Vikings and the Victorians

Description:

"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Kipling appear alongside amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isle of Wight; the material examined, published and unpublished, includes novels, poems, lectures, periodicals, saga-stead travelogues, philology, art and music.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.

subjects: Appreciation,  Civilization,  English literature,  Historiography,  History,  History and criticism,  In literature,  Invention (Rhetoric),  Medievalism,  Old Norse literature,  Sagas,  Scandinavian influences,  Vikings,  Vikings in art,  Vikings in literature,  Great britain, social life and customs,  Great britain, civilization,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Icelandic and old norse literature,  Great britain, history,  Social life and customs

Places: Great Britain,  Northern Europe

Times: 19th century