Ship-Men and Slaughter-Wolves
Neil Price
The Vikings enjoy a public name recognition shared with few other ancient cultures today.1 This hold on the imagination has long pedigree, extending back to late Middle Ages when they formed stuff of saga-writing and legend, through their rediscovery during Enlightenment gradual incorporation into political fan- tasies National Romanticism. When these were in turn usurped by darker fictions Third Reich its spurious myths racial origins, academic study Viking Age would take decades recover from contamination. Perennially drawing new audiences exhibitions, documentaries books, today also saturate our popular culture form everything comics movies football teams, brand names, shipping lines even spacecraft.
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