Richards Julian D. The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2005. — 169 p. — (Very Short Introductions).Vikings then and now
Early Scandinavian kingdoms
Pagans and Christians
Changes in the countryside
Towns and trade
Across the ocean: seafaring and overseas expansion
Settlers in England
Raiders and traders around the Irish Sea
Vikings and Picts: genocide or assimilation?
Landnám in the North Atlantic
The edge of the world: Greenland and North America
Reinventing the Vikings
Timeline
Further reading