The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination: Ethnicity

This book examines the out-of-Scandinavia legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts, focusing on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Rix maps how these discourses informed national legends of ancestral origins, showing how an out-of-Scandinavia legend can be found in works by writers like Jordanes, Bede