Johnni Langer (Email)

My interest for the Vikings had its beginnings in remote infancy, when I attended the film “Vikings, the conquerors” with Kirk Douglas. Since then, I was taken by a great passion for everything that is related to the medieval Scandinavians. Currently I am PhD for the UFPR and intend to put down the most varied modern stereotypes that still persist on this culture, besides investigating diverse historical and archaeological aspects.

Vestu to heilar Þórr ok Óðinn ok öll ginn-heilog goð! (Hail Tor and Odin and all most sacred gods!).

Current Researches:
1.The myth of the dragon in Scandinavia
The research intends to recoup the meanings of the mythical animal for the Scandinavian culture, since its origin in the Age of Bronze, passing for the Age Viking until the Christian period.
2.The human sacrifices in the Viking culture
For ways of analysis of epigraphic-megalitical sources, we intend to recoup diverse aspects of the Scandinavian religious, and its social implications, symbolic politics and at the same time to supply bibliographical tipology an extremely complex question in the historiography, the human sacrifices that are gifts in many cultures human beings.
3.The Vikings in the art and the imaginary
The most varied stereotypes related to the Vikings in the modern world, they had been created during century XIX. In this research, we intend to recoup the social-political motivations that had been involved in the european artistic representations, and that they had finished originating the posterior stereotypes.

Areas of Interest:
Archaeology, epigraphy and medieval Scandinavian art; Mythology, religion and germanic paganismo daily pre-Christian; History, culture and language of the Vikings peoples; European prehistoric Megalitism; Icelandic Literature of century XI AD; Navigation and nautical technology Viking; European Art with Viking thematic.