Laughing Shall I Die
Laughing Shall I Die Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly…
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Laughing Shall I Die
Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor.
Was it a belief in heroic death that made them so lastingly successful against so many bellicose opponents? And yet, it is this same worldview that has always powered the popular public image of the Vikings--with their berserkers, valkyries, and cults of Valhalla and Ragnarok--and has also been surprisingly corroborated by archaeological discoveries such as the Ridgeway massacre site in Dorset.Was it this mindset that powered the sudden eruption of the Vikings onto the European scene? Weighing the evidence of sagas and poems against the