7.1 Vikings

When you hear the term 'viking', what, if anything, springs to mind?

Don't worry about coming up with the "correct" answer: this question is designed to get us to think about popular perceptions of the vikings. Thinking about popular perceptions can help us be aware of our assumptions or things we might take for granted.

See Eleanor Parker's review of Neil Price's The Children of Ash and Elm for a discussion of the tension between popular perceptions and scholarly methodologies, particularly where vikings are concerned.