Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination by Matthias Egeler

Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination

Matthias Egeler

357 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

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This monograph traces the history of one of the most prominent types of geographical myths of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine otherworlds of blessedness and immortality. Taking the mythologization of the Viking Age discovery of North Am...

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