The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Andrew Wawn

The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Andrew Wawn

456 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and popularised during the nineteenth centu...

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