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There is no doubt that Norman stories and myths were an important inspiration for John R. R. Tolkien who repeatedly stressed their significance for shaping his works and literary imagination. In the article Tolkien and the Vikings. On J. R. R. Tolkien and Victorian Literature About The North, Leśniewski analyses the influence of Norse mythology, Victorian literature and history on Tolkienian writings. Tolkien’s belief that we can access and reconstruct history through languages had its source in the nineteenth century when scientists were convinced that it is possible to recreate extinct languages and mythologies. Thus they often created new epic poems on the basis of folk tales and ballads. Tolkien often expressed his regret that England has lost its mythological traditions. He seemed to have dreamt of giving England its own mythology. Tolkien drew inspiration from Victorian writers and scientists, but he also went far beyond Victorian tradition. His works are eclectic and syncretic, bringing together many different traditions—and, thus, appealing to a much wider audience.
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Adolf Hitler and his party, the NSDAP, seduced the German people not only their political ideology, but also their appeal to the then popular myth of the perfect Aryan race. It was the Aryans, the best and most creative of the human races, who, Hitler's followers proclaimed, were to be behind every positive, creative action in human history, behind every great work of art and scientific breakthrough. The Nordic peoples of northern Europe, and especially the Germans, were supposed to be the descendants of the ancient Aryans and as such should take their ancestral place. The article deals with the myth of the Aryans, its incorporation into the theory of human races, and its use by the Nazis to subjugate the Germans and racialize them. It discusses the use of archaeology and archaeological discoveries in particular to lend credence to the Nazi mythology and the narrative built around it, as well as the most spectacular examples of archaeological careers in the Third Reich. When archaeologists were involved on the side of Nazism, they became complicit in the construction of a criminal and genocidal ideology and system of power.
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Adolf Hitler i jego partia NSDAP uwiedli naród niemiecki nie tylko swoją ideologią polityczną, lecz także odwołaniem się do popularnego wówczas mitu o doskonałej rasie aryjskiej. Za każdym pozytywnym, twórczym działaniem w historii ludzkości, za każdym wielkim dziełem sztuki i przełomem naukowym mieli stać, jak głosili zwolennicy Hitlera, Aryjczycy, najlepsza i najbardziej twórcza z ras ludzkich. Nordyckie ludy północnej Europy, a zwłaszcza Niemcy, miały być potomkami starożytnych Aryjczyków i jako takie powinny zająć ich miejsce przodków. Artykuł dotyczy mitu Aryjczyków, jego włączenia do teorii ras ludzkich oraz wykorzystania go przez nazistów do podporządkowania Niemców i ich rasizmowi. Omawia wykorzystanie archeologii i odkryć archeologicznych w szczególności do uwiarygodnienia mitologii nazistowskiej i zbudowanej wokół niej narracji, a także najbardziej spektakularne przykłady karier archeologicznych w III Rzeszy. Kiedy archeolodzy zaangażowali się po stronie nazizmu, stali się współwinnymi konstruowania zbrodniczej i ludobójczej ideologii i systemu władzy.
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