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The new edition of this comprehensive collection of primary documents illuminates the Vikings and their era, while also exploring their lasting cultural importance and influence.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Scandinavian Homelands
2. Scandinavian Society
3. Early Religion and Belief
4. Gender in the Viking Age
5. Viking Warriors and Their Weapons
6. Fjord-Serpents: Viking Ships
7. “Sudden and Unforeseen Attacks of Northmen”
8. “The Heathens Stayed”: Campaigns, Conquests, and Settlements
9. Into the Western Ocean: The Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland
10. Austrveg: The Viking Road to the East
11. “Going from Land to Land on Trading Voyages”: Merchants and Trade
12. From Odin to Christ
13. State-Building at Home and Abroad
14. The End of the Viking Age
15. Reawakening Angantyr
Sources
Index of Topics
Index of Authors and Sources
Info autore
Angus A. Somerville, now retired, formerly taught Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon at Brock University. Somerville was a contributor to the
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
R. Andrew McDonald is Professor in the Department of History at Brock University.
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The new edition of this comprehensive collection of primary documents illuminates the Vikings and their era, while also exploring their lasting cultural importance and influence.
