| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Thames and Hudson, 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Who were the Vikings? Who and what was a Viking? ; Cradle of the Vikings ; Before the Vikings ; Scandinavia and the Roman Empire ; New signs of power ; Political mergers : the rise of the regions ; The Viking age : an outline history -- Viking life and culture. The peoples of Scandinavia ; Viking women ; Costume and appearance ; At home with the Vikings ; Crafts and technology ; Ships : catalyst of the Viking world ; Trade ; Viking towns -- Raiders and invaders. The Viking warrior ; Targets and tactics ; Vikings in Frisia ; The Carolingian heartlands ; The 'great heathen army' in England ; Ship-bases in Ireland ; The Scottish enigma ; Uninviting Wales? ; Iberia, North Africa and the Mediterranean -- Invaders and settlers. Vikings in the East ; The settlement of England ; Irish Vikings in Northwest England ; Jorvik : the Viking age city of York ; The Welsh experience ; Phase two in Ireland ; The Viking age city of Dublin ; Settlers in Scotland and the Northern Isles ; Innse Gall : Vikings in the Western Isles ; Coming to the nub : the Isle of Man ; Normandy -- New found lands. The Faeroe Islands ; The settlement of Iceland ; Greenland ; Further west : Vinland -- Expressions of identity : religion and art. A pagan world ; Art and craft mysteries -- The later Viking age. The cult of kings at Jelling ; King Harald's power bases ; Svein Forkbeard's invasions of England ; Cnut's Anglo-Scandinavian empire ; Town life in Scandinavia -- The end and after. Harald Hardraada and the last of the Vikings ; Lost Kingdoms in the West ; Ending the earldom in the Northern Isles ; From Norsemen to Anglo-Normans in Ireland ; From feuds to feudal Iceland ; Greenland : extinct/exterminated/exited? -- Nationalists, romantics, madmen, and scholars. Rediscovering the Vikings in their colonies ; Rediscovering the Vikings in their homelands ; Meanwhile in America ; The Vikings : past, present and future -- Gazetteer. |
| Subject |
Vikings.
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Vikings. (OCoLC)fst01166937
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Vikingar.
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| ISBN |
9780500290514 (pbk.) |
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0500290512 (pbk.) |
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