The Vikings and the Victorians: inventing the old north in nineteenth-century Britain

Abstract

Part 1 Hazelling the ground: of stockfish and saga Georgian case-studies protectors of Northern Arts. Part 2 Creating the canon: dead kings of Norroway Frithiof of Sognefjord George Dasent and Burnt Njal the Eddas. Part 3 Philology and mercury: the Errander of Cheapinghaven William Morris and the Old Grey North. Part 4 Living the Old North: travels, trips and trots telling Viking tales the invisible college. Part 5 Coda: Vikinglife after Victoria.