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| Replica Viking ships in Catoira, Galicia (Source: Wikipedia) |
Dr Miguel Gomes has recently spoken at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds (Europe's largest gathering in the humanities). In his paper, entitled 'Vikings in Galicia: Popular memory, festivities and traces of the resistance', Miguel examined Nordic incursions in the northwest of the Iberian peninsular, considering the way in which over two hundred years of Viking activity in Galicia had an impact on the local landscape as recently analysed by H. Pires (2017), and how those changes might have inspired the formation of many local legends, tales, and celebrations which have kept the Viking element alive in the landscape of people’s minds.
