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Dialogues with the dead in Vikings
Williams, Howard Klevnäs, Alison
Williams, Howard
Klevnäs, Alison
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2019-11-30
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Moving pictures continue to transform popular engagements with the human past for early 21st-century audiences as for 20th-century audiences, via cinema, television and the internet. While there is a long tradition of filmic representations of the Vikings, the History Channel series Vikings (2013–) is to date a unique instance of a multi-season popular English- language drama portraying the Viking Age in pre–Christian Scandinavia. The story and settings are fictional and sometimes fantastical, yet they are richly and imaginatively informed by a mixture of literary, historical and archaeological sources. This chapter reviews the dialogues with dead bodies and body-parts depicted in the show.
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Williams, H., & Klevnäs, A. (2019). Dialogues with the dead in Vikings. In P. Hardwick & K. Lister (Eds.), Vikings and the Vikings: Essays on television’s history channel series (pp. 128−152). Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press.
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9781476673745