![]() Ohthere told King Alfred about his life and travels at the northernmost fringes of Arctic Scandinavia. His name was Ohthere, and he was a trader and explorer from Arctic Norway. ![]() In the late-ninth century, at a time when much of Anglo-Saxon England had been devastated by Norse invaders, a very different Scandinavian visitor came to the court of King Alfred. ![]() ![]() This project also incorporated her own fieldwork in locations including Greenland, Arctic Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Orkney, Rome, and Istanbul. What emerges is a fluid, fragmented, multidimensional picture that provides insights into how the world was remembered and imagined by a unique culture from the edge of medieval Europe. In Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas she examine the medieval world through the lens of the far-travelling Norse and their saga storytelling culture, establishing an unfamiliar, distinctive approach to global history. ![]() Most recently she has focused on the history of Norse far-travellers who made their mark on the great civilizations of the Middle Ages. Her research explores the history, cultures, languages and literatures of the medieval Nordic world. Delivered by Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University), ‘Of Monsters and Men: Imagining the Arctic in Old Norse Literature’.ĭr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is Associate Professor in Medieval History and Literature, Durham University. ![]()
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