这本书调查一个小的历史事实与广泛的社会，文化和想象力的后果的接收。受莱夫·艾里克森（Leif Eiriksson）大约在1000年访问文兰岛（Vinland）的启发，小说、诗歌、历史、政治、艺术和手工艺、漫画、电影和电子游戏都反映出人们对中世纪挪威人及其北美存在的兴趣与日俱增。
在接受研究方面，从冰岛到美洲，通过将神话、语言、电影和文化研究以及主导批评接受的文学方面的国际权威聚集在一起，独特地处理了北欧历史和接受之间的这种动态。总的来说，这些章节不仅探讨了中世纪冰岛和现代美洲之间的联系，还探讨了为什么中世纪的接触已经成为现代文化的试金石。
From Iceland to the Americas: Vinland and Historical Imagination
This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence.
Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
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