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The Viking Achievement
Author | : Peter Foote,David Mackenzie Wilson |
Publsiher | : Sidgwick & Jackson |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105033743027 |
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The society and culture of early medieval Scandinavia.
The Viking Achievement
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Author | : Peter Foote |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Northmen |
ISBN | : OCLC:1336435502 |
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The Viking Achievement
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Author | : David McKenzie Wilson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Northmen |
ISBN | : LCCN:75018560 |
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Women in the Viking Age
Author | : Judith Jesch |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780851153605 |
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Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.
The Viking Heart
Author | : Arthur Herman |
Publsiher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781328595904 |
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From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America
The Hammer and the Cross
Author | : Robert Ferguson |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2009-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141923871 |
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For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. The attack on Lindisfarne was a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods at Uppsala around 1090. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls 'the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history'. His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia - the eddas, the poetry of the skalds and the sagas - is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries and the evidence of picture-stones, runes, ships and objects scattered all over northern Europe, to make the most convincing modern portrait of the Viking Age in any language. The Hammer and the Cross ranges from Scandinavia itself to Kievan Rus and Byzantium in the east, to Iceland, Greenland and the north American settlements in the west. Beyond its geographical boundaries the book takes us on a journey to a misty region inhabited by Hallfred the Troublesome Poet, Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Hairy-Breeches, Ivar the Boneless and Eyvind the Plagiarist, in which literature, history and myth dissolve into one another.
Icelanders in the Viking Age
Author | : William R. Short |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786447275 |
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The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Song of the Vikings
Author | : Nancy Marie Brown |
Publsiher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137073716 |
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Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri Sturluson. Like Homer, Snorri was a bard, writing down and embellishing the folklore and pagan legends of medieval Scandinavia. Unlike Homer, Snorri was a man of the world—a wily political power player, one of the richest men in Iceland who came close to ruling it, and even closer to betraying it... In Song of the Vikings, award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown brings Snorri Sturluson's story to life in a richly textured narrative that draws on newly available sources.