ISBN-13: 9780367871130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.
ISBN-13: 9780367871130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.
This book examines the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts, focusing on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Rix maps how these discourses informed ‘national’ legends of ancestral origins, showing how an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend can be found in works by writers like Jordanes, Bede,