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‘Anyone interested in the history of the idea of Vinland, the Vikings, and the impact these ideas had (and still have) on the historical imagination of the Americas will find ample food for thought in this volume.’
— David F. Johnson (Florida State University) Arthuriana
Tim William Machan is Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature, University of Notre Dame
Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland
Introduction
1 Vinland on the brain: remembering the Norse – Tim William Machan
Part I: Imagination and ideology
2 Journeys to the centre of the mind: Iceland in the literary and the professorial imagination – Seth Lerer
3 The ‘Viking tower’ in Newport, Rhode Island: fact, fiction, and film – Kevin J. Harty
4 Critiquing Columbus with the Vinland sagas – Matthew Scribner
5 Vinland and white nationalism – Verena Höfig
Part II: Landscapes and cultural memory
6 Migration of a North Atlantic seascape: Leif Eiriksson, the 1893 World’s Fair, and the Great Lakes landnám – Amy C. Mulligan
7 Norwegian-American ‘missions of education’ and Old Norse literature – Bergur Þorgeirsson
8 Americans in Sagaland: Iceland travel books 1854-1914 – Emily Lethbridge
9 The good sense to lose America: Vinland as remembered by Icelanders – Simon Halink
Part III: Recasting the past
10 Spectral Vikings in nineteenth-century American poetry – Angela Sorby
11 ‘Who is this upstart Hitler?’: Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War – Jón Karl Helgason
12 ‘There's no going back’: The Dark Knight and Balder's descent to Hel – Dustin Geeraert
13 Old Norse in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods – Heather O’Donoghue
Bibliography
Index