SCAN 335- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 59 pages long!)

• School: UBC
• Department: Scandinavian
• Course: SCAN 335
• Professor: G E O F F R E Y W I N T H R O P- Y O U N G,

Document Summary

5 men"s works who shape viking image and viking god. Relay station either opposing or supporting each other. Wrote about pre-christianity in a post-christianity era. Still living in the world he created. Horn = masculinity, on female means masculine. Smaug is a sideshow of his academic. Visual shaping of lots of appearance of viking image. Myth has no original, stories just circulate. Arc is just imposed by later authors. We don"t know if that is really what happened. Roman named it because trying to cross some land but fail. Refers to a group of language including scandinavian language. June 8th 793, viking longship appeared out of nowhere killed monks, drowned peoples, robbed, took slaves. Deem as the beginning of the viking age. 9. 25. 1066 was when battle of stamford bridge happened. Buying the viking off not to raid them. French gave lands to the viking and asked them to protect french from other vikings. William is the descendant of the viking.