CALL FOR PAPERS: VIKINGS STUDIES
BRATHAIR JOURNAL 11 (1), 2011, SPECIAL ISSUE: VIKINGS STUDIES.
ISSN: 1519-9053, www.brathair.com

Since the 1960s, the Vikings have been receiving revaluations and new studies
by scholars. Both the impact of conquest, colonization and cultural influences
from Scandinavian and Nordic research society itself, are awakening to new
possibilities of understanding and connections to the Middle Ages. Much more
than just barbarians that terrorized the coasts of Europe, the Vikings were a
one of the most important Germanic cultures of the Carolingian period,
establishing trade routes and cultural ties between the North Sea, the
Mediterranean and the Eastern world, have created important cities such as Kiev
and Dublin and reorganized others, like York; structured the important duchy of
Normandy in France, settled colonies in inhospitable areas and marginal to the
Western world, as the Russian east, the north of Scotland and the North
Atlantic. The oral tradition of the Vikings gave rise to one of the most
important literary productions of the Middle Ages, the Icelandic sagas, and
their mythology has the same impact in today's society. Following the words of
Régis Boyer ("Les vikings auront été des initiateurs de modernité (...) Les
vikings, premiers européens", 2005) invite researchers to present papers in
various fields of Medieval Scandinavian Studies:

- The impact and influence in the Nordic European world: economics, politics,
demography, urbanization, legislation.
- Scandinavian colonization and its socio-cultural consequences, in East and
West.
- Material Culture and Archaeology: settlement patterns, archaeological sites,
administrative centers, rural and urban life, epigraphy, art Viking, graves,
megalithic sculptures, runestones, museology.
- The Nordic society: the social categories, the family, women, children, gender
and sex roles, marriage.
- Scandinavian Literature: the Eddas, the Icelandic sagas, historical
chronicles, skaldic poetry, late folklore.

- Mythology and religion: the gods, mythical narratives, cults and beliefs,
magic, mortuary practices, the Christianization of Scandinavia.
- Connections and junctions with other Norse peoples, Irish, Scots, Britons,
Saxons, Slavs, Finns, Arabs, Byzantines, American Indians, Eskimos.
- The post-medieval representations about the Vikings: literature, opera, visual
arts, cinema, comics, music, internet and contemporary media.

Proposals for articles, essays, reviews and translations can be submitted in
Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian
languages for e-mail: johnnilanger@...
The deadline for receipt of entries is April 31, 2011.

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