Nordic Academic Press, 2014. — 248 p. The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse...
Adams Media, 2017. — 126 p. — ASIN: B01NAX9FPN. This fascinating new book reveals the origins of the Vikings — from Thor and Leif Erikson to Loki and the Valkyries — and the tales that have influenced our own lives. For thousands of years, Vikings have held a storied place in our culture — their distinct appearance, their mighty longships, their reputation for causing death and...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 128 p. The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artifacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonization, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that stayed at home or those that immigrated into Scandinavia, whether voluntarily or by force. This book uses...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 128 p. The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artifacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonization, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that stayed at home or those that immigrated into Scandinavia, whether voluntarily or by force. This book uses...
Amberley Publishing, 2014. — 192 p. The Viking Age was a world very different to our own: a world of violence and magic, swords and slaves. However, there was of course a much more ordinary, everyday side to life. People made things and traded them; they tended crops and livestock; they cooked and looked after their homes; they drank, gambled and went to market. Much has been...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 320 p. In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide,...
Brepols Publishers, 2003. — 248 p. This collection of ten papers investigates the Norse colonization of the North Atlantic region, starting with Viking expansion in Arctic Norway and ending with a discussion of the longterm implications of medieval Scandinavian exploration of the New World. Each chapter provides a short regional synthesis of the archaeological evidence and,...
Edited by James Graham-Campbell — Facts on File, 1994. — 240 p. The Viking Age was filled with drama. It began in the late 8th century, when pagan pirates from Scandinavia fell upon the undefended monasteries and settlements of western Europe in search of loot and tribute, and ended in the 11th century, when the Scandinavian peoples — converted by then to Christianity - had...
Editions Tallandier, 2019. — 665 p. Les vikings ont laissé dans les mémoires collectives un ensemble d'images fortes et contradictoires : pirates redoutables semant la terreur, navigateurs intrépides explorant des terres lointaines ou guerriers et commerçants en quête de richesses. Ces représentations ont une histoire et fascinent jusqu'à aujourd'hui, comme en témoigne la vogue...
Presses Universitaires de France, 2014. — 128 p. — (Que sais-je?). L’effet le moins discutable de l’expansion viking fut la dilatation, sur les terres aux marges de l’œkoumène, du monde scandinave qui inclut aujourd’hui les Féroé, l’Islande et le Groenland. L’impact des expéditions et des migrations sur la Scandinavie est souvent présenté comme un retour d’influence déterminant...
PLON, 1991. — 457 p. — ISBN: 2259022367. Pourquoi et comment les Vikings purent-ils se déplacer dans toute l'Europe, de 800 à 1500 environ ? Dans quelles circonstances se sont-ils installés du Groenland à la Normandie et à l'Angleterre ? Comment ont-ils fondé l'Etat russe ? Auraient-ils pu découvrir l'Amérique ? Grâce à des sources archéologiques strictement contemporaines de...
Routledge, 2008. — 740 p. Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first...
Mariner Books, 2008. — 320 p. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of...
Crux Publishing Ltd., 2014. — 302 p. In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse ‘sea-wolves’ followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down...
University of California Press, 1982. — 294 p. Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society - the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict - is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of...
Penguin Books, 2001. — 447 p. The popular image of the Viking Age is a time of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of Northern Europe. Yet, as Jesse Byock reveals in this deeply fascinating and important history, the society founded by Norsemen in Iceland was far from this picture. It was, in fact, an independent, almost republican Free State,...
Brepols, 2014. — 278 p. The Viking North Atlantic differs significantly from the popular image of violent raids and destruction characterizing the Viking Age in Northern Europe. In Iceland, Scandinavian seafarers discovered and settled a large uninhabited island. In order to survive and succeed, they adapted lifestyles and social strategies to a new environment. The result was...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 368 p. Linked by the politics of global trade networks, Viking Age Europe was a well-connected world. Within this fertile social environment, Iceland ironically has been casted as a marginal society too remote to participate in global affairs, and destined to live in the shadow of its more successful neighbours. Drawing on new archaeological...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 395 p. This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived.Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 152 p. In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of...
London: Robinson, 2005. — 273 p. — (Brief Histories). — ISBN: 1-84529-076-3. Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great...
Alchemy International Publishing, 2016. — 151 p. As MGM's hit show Vikings on the History Channel follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok and his brother Rollo, TV Historian Ashley Cowie unearths a rare Viking sea chart beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Identifying important seats of power in the Viking's Nordic empire, it indicates a land far to the west of Britain. Is...
Brill, 2007. —xxx, 586 p. This volume, prepared in tribute to Barbara E. Crawford, covers the subject of Viking expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic. The 3 papers are arranged in four groups: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; and Place-Names and Language.
Amber Books, 2013. — 224 p. Beginning in 789 AD, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked cities and invaded western Europe. They looted and enslaved their enemies. But that is only part of their story. In long boats they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also sailed up the Seine to Paris (which they sacked). They settled from Newfoundland to Russia, founded...
Amber Books, 2013. — 224 p. Beginning in 789 AD, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked cities and invaded western Europe. They looted and enslaved their enemies. But that is only part of their story. In long boats they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also sailed up the Seine to Paris (which they sacked). They settled from Newfoundland to Russia, founded...
Dunedin Academic Press, 2008. — 358 p. Vikings plagued the coasts of Ireland and Britain in the 790s. By the mid-ninth century vikings had established a number of settlements in Ireland and Britain and had become heavily involved with local politics. A particularly successful viking leader named Ivarr campaigned on both sides of the Irish Sea in the 860s. His descendants...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 176 p. Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry and also specialised methodologies and/or empirical...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 296 p. In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, constructional solution. Doors control access, generate movement, and demark boundaries, yet...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 452 p. — ISBN: 978-0-141-01775-4. For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 452 p. — ISBN: 978-0-141-01775-4. For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 464 p. From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plunderers of the Viking Age ruled Norway, Sweden, and Denmark but roamed as far as Byzantium, Greenland, and America. Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 464 p. From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plunderers of the Viking Age ruled Norway, Sweden, and Denmark but roamed as far as Byzantium, Greenland, and America. Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from...
Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Books, 2019. — 366 p. Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of ‘seven feet of English soil’ in that year of fateful change, 1066. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibly occupying the Norwegian throne, Harald had an interesting (and lucrative) career...
Foote, Peter. The Viking achievement: the society and culture of early medieval Scandinavia [by] Peter Foote [and] David M. Wilson. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970. xxv, 473 p. This is an account of the Norsemen in the period A.D. 800-1200. To understand the Vikings, the society, technology, art, and literature of these vital people, a vast amount of evidence of very different...
København: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1879. — 538 s. Kommissionen for det Arnamagnæanske Legat udgiver herved den Recension af den islandske Fristats Lovsamling Grágás, som findes i det Arnamagnæanske Haandskrift Nr. 334 fol., af Arnas Magnæus kaldet Staðarhólsbók, en af de vigtigste og fortrinligste Membraner, som Legatet er i Besiddelse af. Haandskriftet har været benyttet ved...
København: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1883. — 716 s. Som bebudet; i Forerindringen til den i 1879 trykte Udgave af Grágás efter det Arnamagnæanske Haandskrift Nr. 334 fol., Staðarhólsbók, udgiver Kommissionen for det Arnamagnæanske Legat herved en Række enkelte Dele af Grágás, som findes særskilt i forskjellige Haandskrifter. Den største Del af det saaledes Udgivne bestaaer af...
Left Coast Press, 2007. — 228 p. In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD. The volume brings together a combination of recent summaries and new work on silver and gold coinage, rings and bullion, which allow...
Andromeda Oxford Ltd., 1994. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0-816030-04-9. The Cultural Atlas of the Viking World seeks to explain and illustrate the wide-ranging world of the Vikings. Part One looks at the physical background of the Scandinavian homelands and traces the history of human settlement there before the Viking Age. Part Two examines the Viking Age in Scandinavia: its social...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 259 p. — ISBN: 1846030889. — (General Military). The Norman Knight was the most feared warrior during the 11th and 12th centuries in Western Europe. Tales of their conquests spread throughout the known world as their military prowess resulted in the capture Sicily in 1060 and England in 1066. This beautifully illustrated book explores the world of the...
CRC Press, 2014. — 204 p. The Viking Age lasted a little over three centuries, but has left a lasting legacy across Europe. These dynamic warrior-traders from Scandinavia, who fought and interacted with peoples as far apart as North America, Russia, and Central Asia, are some of the most recognizable historical figures in the western world. In the modern imagination they...
M. Harrison, K. Durham, I. Heath, R. Chartrand. Foreward by M. Magnusson. — Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 209 p. — (General Military). — ISBN: 978-1-84603-340-3. The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. Viking raids reached from Norway to North Africa, they established the dukedom of Normandy, provided the...
Penguin Books, 1995. — 144 p. Viking marauders struck fear into the hearts of ninth-century European peasants, monks and nobles alike for two centuries, but the Vikings were more than seaborne terrorists. This atlas illustrates their influence extending from the Holy Land to Newfoundland, as explorers, settlers, craftsmen and hired mercenaries.
Head of Zeus, 2015. — 400 p. From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings — a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power meant little more than the ability to pillage and plunder,...
Casemate, 2016. — 400 p. "Vikings at War" presents a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war; their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of Europe and even to...
Casemate, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 9781612005195 From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake, their brutality was exorbitant. Employing sail technology...
The Scarecrow Press, 2003. — 405 p. "The Historical Dictionary of the Vikings" traces Viking activity in Europe, North America, and Asia for over three centuries. During this period people from Scandinavia used their longships to launch lightning raids upon their European neighbors, to colonize new lands in the east and west, and to exchange Scandinavian furs for eastern wine...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 407 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). This book provides a comprehensive work of reference for people interested in the Vikings, including entries on the main historical figures involved in this dramatic period, important battles and treaties, significant archaeological finds, and key works and sources of information on the period. It also summarizes the...
Amber Books, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78274-305-7. Beginning in 789 CE, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked settlements and invaded the Atlantic coast of Europe and the British Isles. They looted and enslaved their enemies, terrorizing all whom they encountered. But that is only part of their story. Sailing their famous longboats, they discovered Iceland and America...
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munsgaard Forlag, 1947. — 72 p. The present summary which — besides an introductory review and a table of contents of the lexicon — contains all the texts in English translation, is intended for philologists and historians who might desire to become further acquainted with the Danish work. The translation into English has been undertaken by Miss Eva Nissen....
Albion Press, 2015. — 412 p. Written by the scholar C.F. Keary, this is a comprehensive look at the life of the Vikings in the ninth century, in the context of Western Europe as Christianity’s influence diminished. Keary starts with the European domination of the Roman Empire, distinguishing Christians from so-called ‘heathens’ who worshipped their own gods. Many of these had...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 344 p. The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, they ranged across Europe — raiding, exploring, colonizing — and their presence was felt as far away as Russia and Byzantium. They are most famous as warriors, yet perhaps their talent for warfare is too little understood. Philip...
Second edition. — London and New York: Routledge, 1991. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-415-08396-6. The second edition of this lively and comprehensive book provides a forceful reassessment of the role of the Vikings in history. Drawing on archaeological, literary, as well as historical evidence, the author describes the Viking expeditions overseas, and their transformation from terrifying...
French Edition. — ÉDITIONS JEAN-PAUL GISSEROT, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN: B00SXBLYFI Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la...
Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN B00SXBLYFI. Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la géopolitique contemporaine...
Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN B00SXBLYFI. Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la géopolitique contemporaine...
Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN B00SXBLYFI. Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la géopolitique contemporaine...
Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History University, 2016. — 284 p. A thousand years ago there stood a small church overlooking a fjord now called Tunuliarfik in southern Greenland, but at that distant time it bore the name of the chieftain upon whose land the church was built – Eiriksfjord. Its wooden beams...
Peter Bedrick Books, 1996. — 33 p. — ISBN: 0-439-15535-5 Fact..The Vikings reached America five hundred years before Christopher Columbus.Fact..The average life expectancy of a Viking was around 50 years. Being born was the most dangerous part. So what was it like? Did they go to school? How did they keep warm? Did they go on vacation? Find out these facts and much more in...
London: W. Heinemann, 1911. — 384 p. Accounts of the earliest exploration of the Arctic are scattered through many literatures. In writing this work, reissued here in the two-volume English translation of 1911, the celebrated Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) returned to many of the original sources. Calling on others to help him interpret texts in several...
London: W. Heinemann, 1911. — 438 p. Accounts of the earliest exploration of the Arctic are scattered through many literatures. In writing this work, reissued here in the two-volume English translation of 1911, the celebrated Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) returned to many of the original sources. Calling on others to help him interpret texts in several...
Routledge, 2018. — 446 p. How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and...
Routledge, 2018. — 446 p. How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and...
Brepols Publichers, 2011. — 355 p. This volume is the first to delve into Norway's history of Christianization since 1973 when Fridtjov Birkeli published his book on the topic. For the first time in over thirty years, Dr Nordeide illuminates the change from non-Christian to Christian rituals by analysing archaeological resources from c. AD 560 to c. 1150/1200. This book both...
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967. — 163 p. Scandinavia In The Stone And Bronze Ages. Early Village Communities. The Great Encounter. The Peat Bogs And Their Contents. The Voice Of The East. Craftsmen And Kings. At The Court Of The Svea King Ioq. The Viking Raids. Plates (between pages 138 and 139). Notes On The Plates.
Edinburgh University Press, 1989. — 110 p. The two Icelandic sagas in this volume open a small window on the hazy world of Scandinavian Vikings in eleventh-century Russia. The brief glimpses they give us of an obscure corner of European history are intriguing, not so much because of the light they throw on the lives of Yngvar Eymundsson and Eymund Hringsson as for the elusive...
I.B.Tauris, 2018. — 288 p. Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious...
I.B.Tauris, 2018. — 288 p. Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious...
Vintage Digital, 2014. — 464 p. The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 298 p. ISBN: 0-19-820526-0 With settlements stretching across a vast expanse--from Newfoundland in North America to Kiev in the heart of the Ukraine--and with legends of their exploits extending even farther, the Vikings were the most far-flung and feared people of their time. Yet the archaeological and historical records are so scant that the...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 432 p. Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 432 p. Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done...
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...
The History Press, 2004. — 240 p. This book is about the development of Anglo-Saxon England from AD 800 until the Norman Conquest. It is an introduction to the subject of the Vikings in England. From shortly before AD 800 until the Norman Conquest, England was subject to raids from seafaring peoples from Scandinavia - the Vikings. However, they were not only raiders but also...
Kristiania: Cammermeyers Boghandel, 1923. — 84 s. De fleste haandskrifter av Magnus Lagabøters bylov gjengir ikke hele loven fuldstændig, men henviser til landsloven hvor de to er enslydende. Paa samme maate henviser nærværende oversættelse til professor dr. Absalon Tarangers oversættelse av landsloven. Dog bemerkes at den ikke følger nogen enkelt av de forkortede tekster, men...
Routledge, 1982. — 192 p. Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion.
I.B.Tauris, 2010. — xxvi, 277 p. — ISBN 978-1-84511-869-3. Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards to North America, setting foot on its shores five hundred years before Columbus' first journeys of discovery. But by about AD 1500 their settlements were abandoned and the...
Helsinki-Copenhagen: The Northern Dimension Partnership of Culture (NCDP), 2012. — 138 p. The main objectives of the preprint was to map and give an account of the Viking Route heritage sites located in Russia, to reveal the most important of them and to analyze their status today when it comes to maintenance, marketing and open up for tourism. This book is edited within the...
Reaktion Books, 2018. — 368 p. Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it...
Reaktion Books, 2018. — 368 p. Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it...
McFarland, 2010. — 283 p. The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-Age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were...
Brill, 2017. — 300 p. — (The Northern World 78). Sturla Þórðarson is one of only a handful of thirteenth-century Icelandic historians to be known by name, and he is certainly one of the most significant. A number of works may be traced directly to his literary-cultural circle, notably Landnámabók ( The Book of Settlements ), Íslendinga saga ( The Saga of Icelanders ) and...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 192 p. "To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short." - Odin, from the Havamal (c. 1000). Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In...
Aarhus University Press, 2008. — 378 p. This second volume, based on the excavations of the Viking town Kaupang 2000-2003, presents find types used in economic transactions - coins, hacksilver, ingots, weights and balances. Changes in type and volume of economic transactions at Kaupang and in Scandinavia are discussed, and the economic mentality of Viking crafts- and tradesmen...
New York: Dover Publications, 1988 -50 pgs. Dover Pictorial Archive Series. One of the most colorful periods in history was the Viking age (roughly 800-1100 A.D.), when the Scandinavian peoples entered the international scene in an unparalleled burst of activity-often violent. The information in the book makes use of the most recent generally shared opinions of recognized...
Second Revised Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 528 p. In assembling, translating, and arranging over a hundred primary source readings, Somerville and McDonald successfully illuminate the Vikings and their world for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking Age is brought to life through the range of sources presented, and the...
3rd Revised Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 552 p. In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader , Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 160 p. This book, the first in our Companions to Medieval Studies series, is a brief introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Viking Age and provides an essential foundation for study of the period. The companion begins by defining the Viking Age and explores topics such as Viking society and religion. Viking biographies...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 2nd edition — 404 p. ; maps, illus. The Vikings burst onto the scene in a flash, startling the world with the reach and extent of their raids and the overwhelming destruction they wrought. Their unconventional war strategies, which left the enemy helpless and defenseless, built their reputation as brutal, bloodthirsty...
Prentmet, 2014. — 442 p. Since the 19th century, when the Icelandic Sagas were made available in translated and printed editions and the first Viking ships were unearthed, the Viking Age has been an historical period of worldwide fascination. The Viking Age has not only been crucially important in defining the national heritage of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the period...
Ed. by K. Robberstad. — 2nd ed. — Oslo: Nationaltrykkeriet, 1935. — 102 p. Forord Ved sin død efterlot professor Taranger manuskript til en ny utgave av Utsikt over den norske retts historie bd. I. Det omfattet den største del av boken. Efter anmodning har jeg forestått utgivelsen. På mange steder har jeg forkortet og til dels omskrevet manuskriptet, for at boken skulde bevare...
NY.: Columbia University Press, 1935. – 451 p. The oldest Norwegian laws, those of Gula and Frosta, go back to a time when the culture of the Middle Ages was still a somewhat novel experience in Northern Europe. Though the copies that have survived seem to date from the twelfth century and later, the codes must, in considerable part, have taken form in the eleventh century, or...
The Saga Publishing Company, 2018. — 408 p. More than marauders and bloodthirsty conquerors, the Vikings were builders of a civilization which influence may still be seen in the modern world. The Viking Age is arguably one of the most fascinating epochs in history, and in this book, a new narrative is presented based on Viking history as it is told in the Norse Sagas. Viking...
New York: J. G. Shea, 1891. — 102 p. The work of Torfaeus, a learned Icelander, which is here presented was the first book in which the story of the discovery of Vinland by the Northmen was made known to general readers. After the appearance of his work, the subject slumbered, until Rafn in this century attempted to fix the position of the Vinland of Northern accounts. Since...
Blackthorn Press, 2014. — 336 p. In 866, the city of York was captured by a "Great Army" of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader ‘shared out the land of the Northumbrians, and they proceeded to plough and to support themselves’. This conquest and settlement...
Blackthorn Press, 2014. — 336 p. In 866, the city of York was captured by a "Great Army" of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader ‘shared out the land of the Northumbrians, and they proceeded to plough and to support themselves’. This conquest and settlement...
Author n/a. — Manx National Heritage, 2003. — 32 p. — ISBN: 0-901106-38-0. Viking Arrival. Everyday Life. Tools and Weapons. Clothes & Jewellery. Viking Ships. Trade. Beliefs & Myths. Stories in the Stones. Kingdom of Mann & the Isles. Viking Legacy.
The British Museum, 2008. — 25 p. The term Viking covers all the pagan peoples of Scandinavia who spoke Old Norse, and originated in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Gotland. The Vikings were mainly farmers, fishers, hunters and skilled craft workers. Many Vikings traded with Europe, Russia and Asia, exchanging furs, walrus ivory, amber and slaves for silver, gold and luxury goods...
Stockholm University Press, 2019. — 448 p. The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion , focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life. More broadly expressed, the collection looks at the social, ceremonial and material contexts of myths. This topic has been underexplored in previous research on...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 192 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-786497-71-9. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Vikings have been understood in a straightforward way - but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 328 p. The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 256 p. In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 183 p. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 183 p. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the...
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