Angus Konstam

Lords of the Salt Road (MP3-Download)

The Norse Earls of Orkney and the Viking World Ungekürzte Lesung. 600 Min.

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean. Lords of the Salt Road reveals the dramatic history of the Norse earls of Orkney, who owed their allegiance to the Kings of Norway and ruled their own semi-autonomous empire with lands in mainland Scotland and the Western Isles. At their military height in the 11th century, they held a 400-mile swathe of territory, stretching from Shetland down to the Clyde Estuary. Drawing on contemporary sagas as historical sources, and capturing some of their spellbinding narrative drive, renowned historian and Orkney native Angus Konstam describes how these Norse earls and their followers led Viking raids around the British Isles and even further afield. For over four centuries their warriors and longships battled alongside Scandinavian kings and Norse rebels, and as Norse kingmakers these warlike earls sometimes paid the ultimate price for dabbling in international affairs. They were the key players in Viking Britain. Using a wide range of historical sources such as Celtic-Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon chronicles, this is a spellbinding tale of love, war, triumph, tragedy, treachery, murder, rebellion and greed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Osprey Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472874726
• Artikelnr.: 75519905

Autorenporträt

Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.

Inhaltsangabe

(Subject to confirmation)
I. Prologue
ii. Introduction
iii. Acknowledgements
iv. Chronology
v. A Note on Sources
Part I: The Coming of the Norsemen
Chapter 1: Of Land and People
Chapter 2: Conquest or Settlement
Chapter 3: The Earldom's Origin Myths
Chapter 4: Farmers and Raiders
Part II: The Carving of an Earldom
Chapter 5: Earl Sigurd 'the Mighty'
Chapter 6: Earl Einar 'the One-Eyed'
Chapter 7: The Salt Road
Chapter 8: Earl Sigurd 'the Stout'
Part III: God, Gold and Glory
Chapter 9: Earl Thorfinn 'the Mighty'
Chapter 10: Civil War
Chapter 11: Years of Peace and Plenty
Chapter 12: The Coming of Magnus 'Barefoot'
Part IV: The Rivals
Chapter 13: Battle in the Menai Straits
Chapter 14: Haakon and Magnus
Chapter 15: The Murder of Earl Magnus
Chapter 16: Of Miracles, Martyrs and Saints
Part V: The Renaissance Earl
Chapter 17: Poison and Rebellion
Chapter 18: Rognvald's Invasion
Chapter 19: Earl Rognvald
Chapter 20: The Viking Crusade
Part VI: The Crumbling Earldom
Chapter 21: The War of the Three Earls
Chapter 22: A Tale of Murder and Sainthood
Chapter 23: The Maddadsson Earls
Chapter 24: The Shadow Earls
vi. Postscript
vii. Notes and Bibliography