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Author : Allison Lassieur
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429647854
"Describes the lives of Viking warriors. The readers' choices reveal the historical details of raiding the Lindisfarne monastery, invading England, and fighting at the Battle of Stamford Bridge"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : Union Square & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civilization, Viking
ISBN : 1454909064
Though infamous for their pirating and raiding, active Vikings were actually only a tiny fraction of the total Scandinavian population during the so-called Viking Age. This exploration of their culture goes beyond the myths into the prosaic realities and intimate details of family life; their attitude toward the more vulnerable members of society; their famed longships and extensive travels; and the role they played in the greater community. In addition to images and maps, a timeline lays out Viking history.
Author : Steven P. Ashby
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445620589
An engaging look at life in the Viking Age.
Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313322693
Examines the daily lives of the Vikings.
Author : Letty ten Harkel,D. M. Hadley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782970095
The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns. The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns (c. 800–1100) from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusing on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements. What was it really like to grow up, live, and die in these towns? What did people eat, what did they wear, and how did they make a living for themselves? Although historical sources are addressed, the emphasis of the volume is overwhelmingly archaeological, paying homage to the wealth of new material that has become available since the advent of urban archaeology in the 1960s.
Author : Judith Jesch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153605
Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.
Author : John Guy
Publisher : Snapping-Turtle Guide
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Civilization, Viking
ISBN : 1860070701
Lifestyles of the rich and poor - Food and drink - Pastimes and fashions - Art and architecture - Health and medicine - Women and children - Crime and punishment - Transport and science - Religion - Valhalla - Odin - Valkyries - Thor - Bayeux Tapestry - American settlements - Longships - Weapons.
Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465096992
The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
Author : Tom Shippey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780239507
Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it is this same worldview that has always powered the popular public image of the Vikings—with their berserkers, valkyries, and cults of Valhalla and Ragnarok—and has also been surprisingly corroborated by archaeological discoveries such as the Ridgeway massacre site in Dorset. Was it this mindset that powered the sudden eruption of the Vikings onto the European scene? Was it a belief in heroic death that made them so lastingly successful against so many bellicose opponents? Weighing the evidence of sagas and poems against the accounts of the Vikings’ victims, Tom Shippey considers these questions as he plumbs the complexities of Viking psychology. Along the way, he recounts many of the great bravura scenes of Old Norse literature, including the Fall of the House of the Skjoldungs, the clash between the two great longships Ironbeard and Long Serpent, and the death of Thormod the skald. One of the most exciting books on Vikings for a generation, Laughing Shall I Die presents Vikings for what they were: not peaceful explorers and traders, but warriors, marauders, and storytellers.
Author : Gareth Williams,Peter Pentz,Matthias Wemhoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Civilization, Viking
ISBN : 0714123374
In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors and sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful and fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America and Greenland in the North, the British Isles in the West as well as into the Mediterranean. Throughout their existence, the Vikings encountered a remarkable diversity of peoples and inhabited an expansive and changing world. This beautifully illustrated book explores the core period of the Viking Age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe and the Islamic World and how they created a lasting historical impact on our world today. Highlighting an extraordinary range of objects and featuring new discoveries by archaeologists and metal-detector users, the cultural connections between Europe, Byzantium and the Middle East are explored in absorbing detail. Vikings: life and legend is published to complement a major exhibition developed jointly by the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen and the Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Berlin.
Author : Hazel Richardson
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778720446
Known for their courage on the battlefield and as masters of the sea, the Vikings spread out from their native Scandinavia to Greenland, North Africa, parts of Central Asia, and even Canada. Despite the fact that their heyday was short-lived, the Vikings left behind fragments of a culture that still fascinate children and adults alike. This exciting new book shows children what Viking life was really like. Topics include - the raiding season: individual and community preparation, targets of raids - ship building, navigation, and life at sea daily life in the long house and the care of homesteads while the men were away - seasonal festivals and their feasts - rule by local chieftains - pagan myths and legends, such as the - Valkyries, and the arrival of Christianity Teacher's guide available.
Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1845138449
One hundred years have passed since Robert Falcon Scott's beleagured expeditionary team arrived at the South Pole, only to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. The most feted explorer of his generation, Amundsen counted the discovery of the Northwest Passage, in 1905, as well as the North Pole amongst his greatest achievements. In the golden age of polar exploration Amundsen, whose revolutionary approach to technology transcends polar and nautical significance, was a titan among men. However, until now, his story has rarely featured as more than a footnote to Scott's tragic failure. Reviled for defeating Scott but worshipped by his men, Amundsen was pursued by women and creditors throughout his life before disappearing on a rescue mission for the Italian Fascist who had set off in an airship to claim the North Pole for Mussolini. The Last Viking is the life of a visionary and a showman, who brought the era of Shackleton to an end, put the newly independent Norway on the map and was the twentieth century's brightest trailblazing explorer. Against the backdrop of the race to conquer the most inhospitable corners of the earth, The Last Viking stands alongside The Worst Journey in the World for its grim immediacy of heroism and hardship. Bestriding the generation defined by adventure and the unquenchable desire for discovery, it is the mesmerising story of courage, misery, friendship and the ultimate price paid for immortality.
Author : Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487570491
In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings. The third edition has been reorganized into fifteen chapters. Many sources have been added, including material on gender and warrior women, and a completely new final chapter traces the continuing cultural influence of the Vikings to the present day. The use of visual material has been expanded, and updated maps illustrate historical developments throughout the Viking Age. The English translations of Norse texts, many of them new to this collection, are straightforward and easily accessible, while chapter introductions contextualize the readings.
Author : Liam Gooding
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Masculinity
ISBN : 1530623715
In this book, you will learn how to build the mindset and body of a Viking warrior and how to apply your increased masculinity in the modern world.
Author : Allison Lassieur
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429656399
You choose: Warriors. The life of a warrior is full of danger, decision-making and glory. Now in our You chooseformat readers can live it. Each choice could lead to fame, riches or death. You, the reader, decides!
