Viking fantasies: from Ibsen’s plays to viking romance novels

This paper is a literary comparison of Henrik Ibsen's The Burial Mound (Kjæmpehøien, 1850, 1854) a 19th-century historical drama with Johanna Lindsey's Until Forever (1995), a 20th-century science fiction novel. How do these two texts subvert the narratives of the viking abduction by depicting women as desiring and actively embracing their abduction and not only suffering it?

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SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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2025-03-28
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Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
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Viking fantasies: from Ibsen’s plays to viking romance novels

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Viking fantasies: from Ibsen’s plays to viking romance novels

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This paper is a literary comparison of Henrik Ibsen's The Burial Mound (Kjæmpehøien, 1850, 1854) a 19th-century historical drama with Johanna Lindsey's Until Forever (1995), a 20th-century science fiction novel. How do these two texts subvert the narratives of the viking abduction by depicting women as desiring and actively embracing their abduction and not only suffering it?

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