A Brief History of the Vikings
'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'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 seafarers or desperate outcasts, noble heathens or oafish pirates, the last pagans or the first of the modern Europeans? This concise study puts medieval chronicles, Norse sagas and Muslim accounts alongside more recent research into ritual magic, genetic profiling and climatology. It includes biogra…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84529-076-4
- EAN: 9781845290764
- Produktnummer: 17663423
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.0 cm 222 g
- Gewicht: 222
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Jonathan Clements is the author of Pirate King, Moon in the Pines and Confucius: A Biography. He lives in London and Jyväskylä.
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