From the 1928 silent film The Viking, whose true star is Natalie Kalmus, responsible for the technicolor. (if you’re better than I am at making gifs,…
What Geraldine Barnes called the “nineteenth-century ‘theatre’ of Vinland” began in the 1830s with the publication of Carl Christian Rafn’s Antiquitates Americanae and reached its apogee in the 1890s as a kind of counter-programming to the celebration of Columbus’s landing. The mania offered its adherents two things, a white heritage and a specifically medieval, embattled white heritage, while also, as I’ll conclude, obligating them to protect their whiteness, making them prisoners of their own concocted identity.
Cross posted to In the Middle. A couple of days ago, World News Daily gave us this: “USA: Viking Ship Discovered Near Mississippi River.” While…
Cross-posted on In The Middle. Go there to leave comments, if you want. Maybe you saw an article recently about renewed attempts to change the unpleasant name…
