The new edition of this comprehensive collection of primary documents illuminates the Vikings and their era, while also exploring their lasting cultural importance and influence.
The new edition of this comprehensive collection of primary documents illuminates the Vikings and their era, while also exploring their lasting cultural importance and influence.
Angus A. Somerville, now retired, formerly taught Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon at Brock University. Somerville was a contributor to the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. R. Andrew McDonald is Professor in the Department of History at Brock University.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Scandinavian Homelands 2. Scandinavian Society 3. Early Religion and Belief 4. Gender in the Viking Age 5. Viking Warriors and Their Weapons 6. Fjord-Serpents: Viking Ships 7. “Sudden and Unforeseen Attacks of Northmen” 8. “The Heathens Stayed”: Campaigns, Conquests, and Settlements 9. Into the Western Ocean: The Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland 10. Austrveg: The Viking Road to the East 11. “Going from Land to Land on Trading Voyages”: Merchants and Trade 12. From Odin to Christ 13. State-Building at Home and Abroad 14. The End of the Viking Age 15. Reawakening Angantyr Sources Index of Topics Index of Authors and Sources
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Scandinavian Homelands 2. Scandinavian Society 3. Early Religion and Belief 4. Gender in the Viking Age 5. Viking Warriors and Their Weapons 6. Fjord-Serpents: Viking Ships 7. “Sudden and Unforeseen Attacks of Northmen” 8. “The Heathens Stayed”: Campaigns, Conquests, and Settlements 9. Into the Western Ocean: The Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland 10. Austrveg: The Viking Road to the East 11. “Going from Land to Land on Trading Voyages”: Merchants and Trade 12. From Odin to Christ 13. State-Building at Home and Abroad 14. The End of the Viking Age 15. Reawakening Angantyr Sources Index of Topics Index of Authors and Sources
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