The Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: the Norse medievalism of W.G. Collingwood and his contemporaries

十九世纪，湖区的作家、艺术家和古物学家开始热情地研究维京人的文学和文化，并将该地区的许多独特特征追溯到北欧人的聚居地。这种对莱克兰维京起源的热情表现在学术和小说、绘画和雕塑、传奇翻译和冰岛旅行以及许多其他形式；这一地区运动形成了更广泛的国家利益的一部分，维京人和他们的文学，这种兴趣由语言学、政治和历史主义不同地助长。研究莱克兰维京人的领军人物是威廉·格尔肖姆·科林伍德(1854-1932)，在学术和大众意识方面，科林伍德和他的同代人的“挪威中世纪主义”仍然影响着我们看待维京人在英格兰的影响和湖区独特的历史和文化遗产的方式。我的研究以及由此产生的专著，首次详细考察了大约1850-1930年期间湖区维京人及其文化的研究。然而，它通过专注于W·G·科林伍德的生活和工作来做到这一点，这是第一本关于这位重要而有影响力的人物的书。

In the nineteenth century the writers, artists and antiquarians of the Lake District began enthusiastically to study the literature and culture of the Vikings, and to trace many of the region's distinctive features back to the Norse settlements. This enthusiasm for Lakeland's Viking origins expressed itself in scholarship and fiction, in painting and sculpture, in saga-translations and travels to Iceland, and in many other forms; and this regional movement formed part of a wider national interest in the Vikings and their literature, an interest fuelled variously by philology, politics, and historicism. The leading figure in the study of the Vikings in Lakeland was William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932), and in terms of both scholarly and popular awareness the 'Norse medievalism' of Collingwood and his contemporaries still shapes the ways in which we view both the impact of the Vikings in England and the Lake District's particular history and cultural inheritance.My research, and the resulting monograph, offers the first-ever detailed examination of the study of the Vikings and their culture in the Lake District, in the period c. 1850-1930. It does this by concentrating - by no means exclusively, however - on the life and work of W.G. Collingwood, and it is the first book to be written about this important and influential figure.