Vikings Reimagined

Tom Birkett is the lecturer in Old English at University College Cork, PI on the World-Tree Project, and author of Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry. Roderick Dale is Cultural Engagement Fellow with the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age at the University of Nottingham.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction by Tom Birkett1. Vikings! by M. J. Driscoll2. My Vikings and Real Vikings: Drama, Documentary and Historical Consultancy by Neil Price3. (Re)discovering the Vikings in Poland: From Nineteenth-Century Romantics to Contemporary Warriors by Leszek Gardeła4. Women in Viking Reenactment by Klaudia Karpińska5. Who’s Afraid of an Electric Torch?: Reimagining Gender and the Viking World in Contemporary Picturebooks by Jessica Clare Hancock6. The Terrible Njorl’s Saga: Comedic Reimaginings of the Íslendingasögur from the Victorians to the Present Day by Thomas Spray7. The One that Got Away in Old Norse Myth, Moby-Dick, and the Work of Hugh MacDiarmid by Heather O’Donoghue8. Death ere the afternoon: Jómsvíkinga saga and a Scene in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls by Richard North9. "(No More) Reaving, Roving, Raiding, or Raping": The Ironborn in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones by Carolyne Larrington10. A Saga King in a Finnish Beijing Opera by Kendra Willson11. "Pick up Rune": The Use of Runes in Digital Games by Maja Bäckvall12. From Barbarian to Brand: The Vikings as a Marketing Tool by Roderick Dale13. Raiding the Vikings: How does Ireland Consume Its Viking Heritage? by Rebecca Boyd14. The Great Viking Fake-Off: The Cultural Legacy of Norse Voyages to North America by Eleanor Rosamund BarracloughAfterword: Tell These Stories Yourself by Kevin Crossley-HollandIndex