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037			_bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 _nSAN 200-2442
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100	1		_aWhittock, Martyn, _d1958- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAmerican Vikings : _bhow the Norse sailed into the lands and imaginations of America / _cMartyn Whittock.
250			_aFirst Pegasus Books cloth edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPegasus Books, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_ax, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly color) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographic references (pages 223-247) and index.
520			_a"Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have traveled far and wide, not least across the turbulent seas of our minds and imaginations. The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary. For centuries medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, claimed that Vikings reached North America around the year 1000. This book explores that claim, separating fact from fiction and myth from mischief, to assess the enduring legacy of this claim in America. The search for "American Vikings" connects a vast range of different areas; from the latest archaeological evidence for their actual settlement in North America to the myth-making of nineteenth-century Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest; and from ancient adventurers to the political ideologies in the twenty-first century. It is a journey from the high seas of a millennium ago to the swirling waters and dark undercurrents of the online world of today. No doubt, the warlike Vikings would have understood how their image could be "weaponized." In the same way, they would probably have grasped how their dramatic, violent, passionate, and discordant mythologies could appeal to our era and cultural setting. They might, though, have been more surprised at how their image has been commercialized and commodified. A vivid new history by a master of the form, American Vikings explores how the Norse first sailed into the lands, and then into the imaginations, of America" -- _cPublisher's description.
505	0	0	_tWho and what were "Vikings"? -- _tInside the heads of Vikings -- _tThe Viking world -- _tVinland...the edge of the world -- _tViking North Americans -- _tSharing the stage with Vikings? -- _tCompeting ethnic origin myths of "discovery," in the early USA -- _tVikings in the Midwest? -- _tNew England Vikings? -- _tA Norse home from home? -- _tA darker side of the story -- _tVikings reading comic books -- _tThe Vikings go to the movies...and watch TV -- _tAmerican Vikings meet QAnon -- _tMerchandising Vikings -- _tAfterword: Where next for the American Vikings?
650		0	_aVikings _xHistory. _9240297
650		0	_aVikings _xTravel _zNorth America.
650		0	_aCivilization, Viking. _968721
651		0	_aNorth Atlantic Ocean _xNavigation.
651		0	_aAmerica.
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