The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation. This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingship, poetry and family life. The book covers the information we have on the vikings, going into their society and culture before their history. Roesdahl covers the all the bases without going into depth in the intradiscipline arguments. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today'įar from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. THE VIKINGS Roesdahl, Else Published by Penguin Books (1992) ISBN 10: 0140125612 ISBN 13: 9780140125610 New Softcover Quantity: 1 Seller: BennettBooksLtd (LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. 'The Vikings' is a primer on viking culture and history. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are.
'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure.
Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword The Vikingsby Else Roesdahl 'Resources and Settlements' by Peter Sawyer in From Viking to Crusader: The Scandinavians and Europe 800-1200ed.
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