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The Viking myth6 reading minutes

par Guillaume Moix
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Le Regard Libre N° 74 - Guillaume Moix

The figure of the Viking has steadily gained in popularity over the last few decades. Its depictions in a whole range of works and video games are often caricatured, sometimes grotesque and even dangerous in terms of identity ideologies. So let's take a look at who the Scandinavians of the early Middle Ages really were, and how the image we have of them today has been created over the centuries.

Avant tout, si l’on vous parle de Vikings, qu’est-ce qui vous vient à l’esprit? Il y a des chances pour que vous imaginiez une troupe de guerriers gigantesques, coiffés de casques à cornes, descendant de leur drakkar pour massacrer des moines chrétiens affolés en hurlant le nom d’Odin, le tout dans la plus grande barbarie. Que vous les voyiez ensuite boire quantité de bière dans des cornes évidées, riant et se prép

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