《新科学家》 第3612期 · 2026年9月12日 · 中文解读
追寻真实的维京人:打破刻板印象的历史重构
In search of the real Vikings · In search of the real Vikings
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本文介绍了尼尔·普莱斯的新书《海王与女巫》,该书通过21处墓葬的考古证据,揭示了维京时代北欧人作为农民、商人和奴隶主等多元身份的真实面貌,并指出“维京人”这一标签实为后世西方构建的意识形态产物。
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The stories we tell about the Vikings often say more about us than them. A fascinating book tries to show the Norse as they were, says Michael Marshall THE first thing to understand about the Vikings is that the people we label Vikings never called themselves by that name; it wasn’t their ethnic identity in the way “Roman” or “Puerto Rican” has been. The Old Norse word víkingr probably meant something like “pirate”, explains Neil Price on page 2 of his richly informative new book, The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and death in the Viking Age. It described a job or activity “that could be taken up or left off at different times in a life”. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3612期 · 2026年9月12日,In search of the real Vikings。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。

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