The Viking Achievement
Title | The Viking Achievement PDF eBook |
Author | David McKenzie Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Northmen |
ISBN |
The Viking Achievement
Title | The Viking Achievement PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Foote |
Publisher | Sidgwick & Jackson |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The society and culture of early medieval Scandinavia.
The Viking Achievement
Title | The Viking Achievement PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Foote |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Northmen |
ISBN |
Women in the Viking Age
Title | Women in the Viking Age PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Jesch |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0851153607 |
Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.
The Viking achievement: the society an d culture of early medieval Scandinavia
Title | The Viking achievement: the society an d culture of early medieval Scandinavia PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Godfrey Foote |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Civilization, Scandinavia |
ISBN |
Children of Ash and Elm
Title | Children of Ash and Elm PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Price |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 629 |
Release | 2020-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465096999 |
The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
The Last Viking
Title | The Last Viking PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen R. Bown |
Publisher | White Lion Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Antarctica |
ISBN | 9781845138448 |
One hundred years have passed since Robert Falcon Scott's beleagured expeditionary team arrived at the South Pole, only to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. The most feted explorer of his generation, Amundsen counted the discovery of the Northwest Passage, in 1905, as well as the North Pole amongst his greatest achievements. In the golden age of polar exploration Amundsen, whose revolutionary approach to technology transcends polar and nautical significance, was a titan among men. However, until now, his story has rarely featured as more than a footnote to Scott's tragic failure. Reviled for defeating Scott but worshipped by his men, Amundsen was pursued by women and creditors throughout his life before disappearing on a rescue mission for the Italian Fascist who had set off in an airship to claim the North Pole for Mussolini. The Last Viking is the life of a visionary and a showman, who brought the era of Shackleton to an end, put the newly independent Norway on the map and was the twentieth century's brightest trailblazing explorer. Against the backdrop of the race to conquer the most inhospitable corners of the earth, The Last Viking stands alongside The Worst Journey in the World for its grim immediacy of heroism and hardship. Bestriding the generation defined by adventure and the unquenchable desire for discovery, it is the mesmerising story of courage, misery, friendship and the ultimate price paid for immortality.