ML200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Survivalism, Chrétien De Troyes, Marion Zimmer Bradley
ML200
End of Vikings
Vikings in Film
• The 13th warrior (1999)
• The Secret of Kells (2009)
o Animation draws design notes from the actual Book of Kells
• Vikings (2013 - )
o Not so much accurate as it is authentic
▪ Actual material is drawn from real events from history of Viking age
▪ Historical actions from Viking sagas likely drawn from true events but edited
▪ Visual accuracy in many things (clothing a bit off) including hairstyles, battle
techniques, and languages
▪ Timelines are inaccurate to add cinematic appeal
• Viking (2016)
o Vladimir I – Christianity; Russian Primary Chronicle
o Not unlike what Vikings did in the west in terms of raiding and trading
o Written well after the fact
o Mythologized
• Saga of Bjorn
o Viking medievalism experience
o Lightly mocking traditional Viking stereotype and popular conversions in the earl MA
o Cute and funny
• Collapsing of temporalities – many things from different centuries and expands them
Alternate Arthurs
Arthur in the Sources
• Gildas does’t etio Athu i his tets, Bede does’t eist i his Elesiastial Histo ut
he also skipped a lot of other stuff), and Mount Badon
• Theory Arthur did not exist as one person
• Nennius, Historia Brittonum (8th e. ad Athu’s attles
• Annales Cambriae (10th cen.), Mount Badon, and Battle of Camlann
• Some assorted Welsh poetry that may have drawn from oral history
• Would have been a war leader likely for Romans
• Wales or SW Britain, maybe N?
• Proto-Arthurs?
• Potential candidates for inspiration with true sources such as Amrosius Aurelianus
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