It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination by Robert Rix
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This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed ‘national’ legends of ancestral...
The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination by Robert Rix is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.
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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination aloud.
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