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Tom Birkett
Occupationprofessor
Known forhas written about the usurpation of viking symbols by neo-nazis

Tom Birkett is a professor of Old English at the University College Cork.[1][2]

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  1. ^ "UCC lecturer Tom Birkett will spend the summer sailing on a reconstructed Viking ship, here he explains why" (PDF). Evening Echo. 2016-06-15. Retrieved 2021-01-16. As well as being an enthusiastic proponent of public engagement with the medieval past, I'm currently the Principal Investigator on the World-Tree Project, which aims to create the world's largest digital repository of material on the Vikings through community collection.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Tom Birkett (2021-01-11). "US Capitol riot: the myths behind the tattoos worn by 'QAnon shaman' Jake Angeli". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 2021-01-12. Retrieved 2021-01-12. There is, of course, a long history of the co-opting of Norse imagery by the far right.

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