El mito vikingoel escandinavo como el "otro" en la Europa medieval
ISSN: 1135-125X
Year of publication: 2002
Issue: 10
Pages: 55-80
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos del CEMYR
Abstract
The present paper provides a vision of the Skandinavians which is certainly different from the one other Europeans have received from the Middle Ages. Since this information was obtained almost always from their enemies or else from peoples with radically different cultural values, the cliché still existing in the XXI century should not surprise us. Besides the historical data in sources different from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, linguistic evidence suggests that the relationship between the Scandinavians and other Europeans was much closer and less violent than we may think (at least in the case of Britain).