The Vikings : a very short introduction / Julian D. Richards.

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Richards, J. D

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TextSeries: Very short introductions ; 137.Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0191517399
9780191517396
9780191578076
019157807X
9786610752850
6610752850
9781429459761
142945976X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vikings.DDC classification:

948.022 22

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DL65 .R535 2005eb

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Contents:

List of illustrations; 1 Vikings then and now; 2 Early Scandinavian kingdoms; 3 Pagans and Christians; 4 Changes in the countryside; 5 Towns and trade; 6 Across the ocean: seafaring and overseas expansion; 7 Settlers in England; 8 Raiders and traders around the Irish Sea; 9 Vikings and Picts: genocide or assimilation?; 10 Landnám in the North Atlantic; 11 The edge of the world: Greenland and North America; 12 Reinventing the Vikings; Timeline; Further reading; Index.

Summary: The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, yet they were also traders, settlers, and farmers, who have been variously perceived as poets, explorers, democrats, and statesmen. Julian Richards uses the latest archaeological evidence to reveal the whole Viking world, and examines their legacy - from medieval sagas to 19th Century nationalism. - ;The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic a.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139) and index.

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The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, yet they were also traders, settlers, and farmers, who have been variously perceived as poets, explorers, democrats, and statesmen. Julian Richards uses the latest archaeological evidence to reveal the whole Viking world, and examines their legacy - from medieval sagas to 19th Century nationalism. - ;The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic a.

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