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Gregers Einer Forssling

Nordicism and Modernity

Gregers Einer Forssling

Nordicism and Modernity

Gregers Einer Forssling Pitstone, UK

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Acknowledgements

I would firstly like to thank Roger Griffin, Emeritus Professor at Oxford Brookes, and Martin Arnold, Emeritus Reader at the University of Hull, for their invaluable support and guidance in helping me to develop the PhD thesis on which this work is based. Their valuable expertise, in their respective research areas, and their encouragement through difficult times made this work possible. My thanks as well to Dr. Tom Crook and Charmian Hearne for their advice and support during my time at Oxford Brookes together with the staff and students of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences who provided such a stimulating academic environment to work in. I would also like to thank those who assisted me in accessing research material at The British Library, Oxford Brookes University and my local library in Tring. I am also grateful for those who spent time with me along the way, discussing my ideas and sharing their knowledge with me. My thanks to historian Roger Moorhouse for sharing his expertise on the Third Reich and translation skills; to Pastor Geir Waage of Reykholt Church, Iceland, for sharing his knowledge of Scandinavian history and Old Norse sagas during my visit and to Jens Peter Mortensen for his knowledge of