| Description |
240 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-234) 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. |
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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 -- Further reading -- Illustration credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Subject |
Vikings.
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Vikings -- Social life and customs.
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Viking antiquities.
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Civilization, Viking.
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| ISBN |
0500051445 |
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9780500051443 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2438392 |
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NZ1 11080617 |
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AU@ 000041332215 |
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