Echoes of the Arrival of the Norsemen in America: Christian Rafn in the Nineteenth-century Hispanophone World
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32112/2174.2464.2021.441Keywords:
Christian Rafn, Northmen in America, Vinland, saga literature, old Norse, Spanish translationsAbstract
TThis article addresses the importance of Carlos Cristiano Rafn's work Antiquitates Americanae (1837), for the historiography of the Spanish speaking word in the nineteenth century, especially with regard to the way in which this work generated new discussions about the arrival of the Scandinavians in American in the tenth century. The article will also examine the way in which translators of this work on both sides of the Atlantic analysed and/or criticised Rafn's new proposals, from the perspective of a cultural context in which France and its academies had served as a model for Spanish literature for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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