Viking Heritage and History in Europe : Practices and Re-creations (Paperback)

1.    The Mythopoetic Viking in European Cultural Heritage; Section I: Viking Tourism, Living-history, and Re-enactment as European Cultural Heritage; 2. Cross-Cultural Contact, the Tourist Gaze and Viking Heritage Spaces; 3. Viking Hiking and other Time Travel; 4. Vikings in Historical Pageants and Public Events; 5. Viking Re-enactment; Section II: Perspectives on Vikings in European Popular Culture; 6. Towards Inclusive Interpretations; 7. Alcohol Consumption, Masculinity, and the Modern Viking; 8. Viking and Old Norse Memoryscapes in Comics; 9. Vikings and Gaming: Cultural Representations of the North in Video Games;Section III: Vikings in European Museums, Heritage, and Politics; 10. Reconstructing Viking Ships in European Cultural Heritage Institutions; 11. Uncanny Encounters with Iceland’s Vikings at the Saga Museum; 12. Runes and Racism; 13. Political Uses of the Viking Age: The Sweden Democrats and the Danish People’s Party; Conclusion; 14. Towards Public Viking Research