Norse-Iberian Encounters

Studies on Contact and Cultural Reception

Inés García López, Irene Garcia Losquino (eds)

Pages: approx. 248 p.
Size:156 x 234 mm
Illustrations:12 col.

Language(s):English
Publication Year:2027

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From analysis of contemporary sources to later receptionism, this book brings together scholars from across the world to engage in an up-to-date discussion on the relationship between Norse incomers and the cultures of the Iberian Peninsula during the Viking Age.

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BIO

Inés García López is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer of German Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. She is also a researcher at IRCVM: Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medieval, Universitat de Barcelona. She is also a translator and a specialist in critical studies on the reception of Old Norse literature.

Irene García Losquiño is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is working on viking contact with the Iberian Peninsula and Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her work combines toponymy, medieval written sources and archaeology.

Summary

The impact of the Norse on the Iberian Peninsula has long been understudied. Viking activity in the region has often been treated as marginal in comparison with other parts of Europe, and what scholarship has been published is not always available in English. This volume brings together leading specialists in medieval Scandinavian history, art history, archaeology, and literature to redress this imbalance through a fresh examination of Norse–Iberian encounters during the Viking Age.

The collected studies explore viking presence in different regions of medieval Iberia; investigate artistic and cultural exchanges between Iberia and Scandinavia; and analyse how these exchanges have been interpreted and reimagined in literature, cinema, and translation. Structured around two complementary thematic strands, the contributions first engage with archaeological, artistic, and historical evidence, before turning to the post-medieval reception of these encounters. Together, the volume offers an up-to-date and multifaceted reassessment that sheds new light on the significance of the Norse in Iberian history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Medieval North in the Iberian Peninsula
Irene García Losquiño and Inés García López

I Encounters between the North and the South

Northern Iberia in the Icelandic Sagas
Santiago Barreiro

Payment in Kind: Reaching across a Cultural Gap
Hélio Pires

Viking Presence in Portuguese Space: Old and New Data
Mário Jorge Barroca

Visual Art as Evidence of a Scandinavian Presence in Iberia during the Viking Age and Medieval Period
Nancy L. Wicker

Parallels in the Imagery of Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula around the Year 1000
Rebeca Franco Valle

II Imagining the North

From Barbarians to the New Celts: The Changing Role of Vikings in the Galician Cultural Narratives
Manuel Gago

Surfing the Great Void
Enrique Bernárdez

Greenland in Early Modern Hispanic Thought: Cartographers, Chroniclers, and Linguists
Teodoro Manrique-Antón

Juan Andrés’s ‘Poesía Septentrional’: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes
Edel Porter

Axes and Turbans on Screen: The Challenges of Representing Viking Iberia in Film and Television
Alberto Robles Delgado