Viking Legacies: Landscape, Language, Literature [9780500028308]

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{"p":["Whatever happened to the Vikings? Perhaps, people suppose, having had their fill of pillage and plunder, they simply left the British Isles and went back home to Scandinavia. But while the popular image of Vikings as bloodthirsty raiders has endured, history often skips over their positive impacts and the legacy that lingers on in the landscape, literature, and the English language itself.","First came small warbands raiding the coasts of Britain and Ireland and violently putting down any resistance; then came great invading armies that conquered vast swathes of territory. These are the Vikings we remember—(apocryphal) horned helmets, heathen gods and all. But what happened when they began to establish permanent camps, to interact peacefully with local inhabitants, and to make alliances with local leaders? These Viking-age Scandinavians were now no longer Vikings in the strict sense of the word.",{"em":"Beowulf"}]}

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