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"This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an 'out-of-Scandinavia' legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed 'national' legends of ancestral origins, showing how an 'out-of-Scandinavia' legend can be found in works by several familiar writers including Jordanes, Bede, 'Fredegar', Paul the Deacon, Freculph, and Æthelweard. The book investigates how legends of northern warriors were first created in classical texts and since re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of identity and ethnicity. Among other things, the 'out-of-Scandinavia' tale was exploited to promote a legacy of 'barbarian' vigor that could withstand the negative cultural effects of Roman civilization. This volume employs a variety of perspectives cutting across the disciplines of poetry, history, rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. After years of intense critical interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical world, Africa, and the East, this first book-length study of 'the North' will inspire new debates and repositionings in medieval studies"--

Literature, Medieval --- Legends --- Scandinavia in literature --- Littérature médiévale --- Légendes --- Scandinavie dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Europe, Northern --- Europe septentrionale --- Literatures --- Littératures

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French literature --- Vikings in literature --- Myth in literature --- Scandinavia in literature --- Mythology, Norse, in literature --- Littérature française --- Vikings dans la littérature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Scandinavie dans la littérature --- Mythologie nordique dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Scandinavian influences. --- Histoire et critique --- Influence scandinave

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Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Monsters in literature. --- Dragons in literature. --- Paleography, English. --- Heroes in literature. --- Manuscript dating. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Editing. --- British Library. --- Beowulf. --- Beowulf --- Nowell codex. --- Manuscripts. --- Scandinavia --- In literature. --- Dragons in literature --- Heroes in literature --- Manuscript dating --- Monsters in literature --- Paleography, English --- English paleography --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- Dating of manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry --- English epic poetry, Old --- Epic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- Old English epic poetry --- English poetry --- Criticism, Textual --- Editing --- British Museum. --- De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus. --- Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de miraculis Indiae. --- Vita Sancti Christophori. --- Judith (Anglo-Saxon poem). --- Bjowulf --- British Library --- In literature --- Beowulf manuscript (Nowell codex) --- Códice Nowell --- Codex Nowell --- British Museum --- Epic poetry, English (Old) - Criticism, Textual --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - Editing --- Manuscripts, English (Old) - Editing --- Scandinavia - In literature