Fw: The Great Viking Survey
O'connor, Professor Ralph J.
Sent: 02 December 2024 16:43
To: Christian Cooijmans <christian...@khm.uio.no>
Subject: The Great Viking Survey
Dear colleague,
I hope you’re doing well. As you may know, the University of Oslo recently launched the
Great
Viking Survey, an unprecedented global study to gauge public opinion on the vikings and their history and legacy in the present day (see details below). I would be very
grateful if you’d be able to share the below news item with your departmental/student mailing lists and wider networks.
Many thanks in advance, and all very best wishes,
Chris Cooijmans
Dr Christian Cooijmans
Postdoctoral Fellow
Museum of Cultural History
University of Oslo
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The University of Oslo has recently launched the Great Viking Survey, a wide-ranging study to explore how people across the world perceive and engage with the vikings as history and heritage, and to map the many ways in which contemporary media and academia shape these views. This online survey invites anyone, anywhere, over 18, to share their thoughts on the iconic viking warrior figure, as well as the enduring legacy and memory of the vikings in the modern world. In doing so, researchers will be able to shine an unprecedented light on the means and mechanisms that allow images and myths of the vikings to be shaped and spread in the public sphere.
The survey is part of the Making a Warrior-project, a pan-Nordic network of scholars examining the concept of viking ‘warriorhood’ and its representations past and present. By determining how ideas and images of vikings are shared among different communities and demographics, the project is able inform future outreach and cultural heritage initiatives that respond to public interest, while fostering a nuanced appreciation of the Viking Age.
The Great Viking Survey is now live at vikingsurvey.org, and remains open until mid-May 2025.
The associated press release from the University of Oslo can be found here.
Please feel free to share across your networks, academic and otherwise!
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