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Christian conversion and Christian memory politics stripped the Vikings of much of their mythology, heritage, and historical memory, leaving modern interpreters with a filtered archive.
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Memory Erasure
Christian conversion and Christian memory politics stripped the Vikings of much of their mythology, heritage, and historical memory, leaving modern interpreters with a filtered archive.
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"And as I explained in today's lecture, there are many actually good reasons why you would want to preserve an oral tradition. That's the..."
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"But the main source of our understanding is through Norse mythology. Unfortunately we only have a fraction of their entire mythology. Their mythology, it's..."
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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