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Author : Peter Foote,David Mackenzie Wilson
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033743027
The society and culture of early medieval Scandinavia.
Author : Peter Foote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Northmen
ISBN : OCLC:1336435502
Author : David McKenzie Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Northmen
ISBN : LCCN:75018560
Author : Judith Jesch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328595904
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
Author : Robert Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141923871
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.
Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786447275
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.
Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137073716
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.
Author : Kirsten Wolf,Tristan Mueller-Vollmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216162018
This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, discusses what we now believe to be the truth, and provides excerpts from primary source documents. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the fictions. The book discusses 11 mistaken notions about the Vikings, with each fiction treated in its own chapter. Topics include whether the Vikings wore horned helmets, whether they were unhygienic, whether they had primitive weapons, whether they drank out of skull cups, and more. Each chapter examines how the misconception proliferated and discusses what we now believe to be the facts contradicting the fictions. Excerpts from primary source documents help readers to understand how the misconceptions came to be throughout history and provide evidence for the historical truths.
Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674916135
In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South.
Author : Roger Chatterton Newman
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781856357197
The story of the king who came closer than any other Irishman before or after to uniting Ireland.
Author : F. Donald Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136527098
Completely updated to include important primary research, archaeological findings and debates from the last decade, this third edition of F. Donald Logan's successful book examines the Vikings and their critical role in history. The author uses archaeological, literary and historical evidence to analyze the Vikings' overseas expeditions and their transformation from raiders to settlers. Focusing on the period from 800–1050, it studies the Vikings across the world, from Denmark and Sweden right across to the British Isles, the North Atlantic and the New World. This edition includes: a new epilogue explaining the aims of the book updated further reading sections maps and photographs. By taking this new archaeological and primary research into account, the author provides a vital text for history students and researchers of this fascinating people.
Author : Stefan Brink,Neil Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134318261
Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field, and the most comprehensive book of its kind ever attempted.
Author : René Chartrand,Keith Durham,Mark Harrison,Ian Heath
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472813220
The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. They made history, establishing the dukedom of Normandy, providing the Byzantine Emperors' bodyguard and landing on the shores of America 500 years before Columbus. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs and original Osprey artwork, this book presents a new window into their way of life including detailed studies of the Hersir, the raiding warrior of the Viking world, and the legendary Viking longship.
Author : Laurence de Looze,Jon Karl Helgason,Russell Poole,Torfi H. Tulinius
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442621244
Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil’s story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore.