Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-1-85285-476-8
Verlag: Hambledon Continuum
Barbaric rapers and pillagers or an ultimately civilising influence for Europe? You decide in this concise yet comprehensive history of the Viking people.
- It is high time there was a new standard work on the Vikings. This is it.
- As well as looking at the life and deeds of the Vikings this book also looks at their remarkable saga literature.
- The author is well-qualified to write this book as he is a Professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Hull.
The story of the Vikings is one of the most dramatic in European history. From their base in Scandinavia, Viking warriors and settlers spread across northern Europe, into Russia and across the Atlantic. After their first impact as fearsome raiders, destroying monasteries and plundering coastal settlements, the Vikings turned to conquest in England, Ireland and Normandy. In their long ships they also penetrated into the Mediterranean and as far as Byzantium, as well as establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland, and discovering Vinland, or America.
The Vikings is a concise and clear survey of who the Vikings were, what they did, why they did it and how we know about them. It includes an account of their remarkable saga literature. It is likely to become a standard work on the subject.
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Weitere Infos & Material
The Vikings in History
2 Society and Religion
3 Battle on Land and at Sea
4 England; Ireland and Wales 789-900
5 England, Ireland and Wales 900-1070
6 Scotland and the Orkneys
7 Western Europe
8 Russia and the East
9 Atantic Explorations and Settlements
Notes
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