Nancy Marie Brown

Ivory Vikings (eBook, ePUB)

The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A fascinating tale of discovery and mystery." - The Minneapolis Star Tribune In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. The Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466879133
• Artikelnr.: 42551800

Autorenporträt

NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of highly praised books of nonfiction, including Song of the Vikings. She is fluent in Icelandic, and spends her summers in Iceland. She has deep ties to the Scandinavian cultural institutions in the U.S. Brown lives in East Burke, VT.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Introduction: The Missing Pieces
One: The Rooks
Two: The Bishops
Three: The Queens
Four: The Kings
Five: The Knights
Acknowledgments: The Pawns
Illustration Credits
Tables
Notes
Further Reading
Index