Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Forgery (Forging Ahead: Faking Sagas and Developing Concepts of Cultural Authenticity and National Identity in 17th- and 18th-Century Scandinavia)

The high-stakes game of forgery, from priceless art to counterfeit banknotes, has stimulated public and professional interest for centuries. In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scandinavia a number of texts appeared for the first time which subsequently came to be...