tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post4529733737391050124..comments2024-03-21T12:27:14.795+00:00Comments on Norse and Viking Ramblings: Vikings and Sausage RollsViqueenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-17941988126818104562010-07-19T20:13:32.971+01:002010-07-19T20:13:32.971+01:00Long live proper degrees in Viking Studies! That ...Long live proper degrees in Viking Studies! That said, I did have some fun in my grad student days with re-enactment groups (and I reckon the experience of waking up mildly hungover in a wet field and shrugging into a cold hauberk was relatively authentic, probably not having changed much in a thousand years), but had to keep a rigid mental separation between what I had learned as authentic and what my re-enacting peers thought was authentic .... Yet though I seldom awaken in wet fields these days, I continue to bump into what appears to be a "misalignment" of some kind between the "desire for authenticity" and the "attainment of authenticity"; more often amongst "amateur scholars" than re-enactors, though the situation seems much the same. Perhaps it is a failure in our education systems to teach "autonomous learning"? People want to (or say they want to) learn things (Viking authenticity, or what have you), but seem to have difficulty managing it. They can't distinguish between good sources and bad, etc. Oh well! I guess it keeps proper degrees in proper Viking Studies (and etc.) going! :)Carl Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088507380154524745noreply@blogger.com