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Vikings A History

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ISBN-10: 0143118013

ISBN-13: 9780143118015

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert Ferguson

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A comprehensive and thrilling history, based on the latest scholarship, offers the definitive portrait of the Vikings Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from their ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls "the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history". His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries to reveal a sweeping picture of one of history's most amazing civilizations.
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.30" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Robert Ferguson is a psychologist and executive coach who has provided consulting, conflict resolution, mediation and leadership training to organizations including Credit Suisse USA, Merrill Lynch, Ahlstrom, Kennametal, KBI Biopharma and Aegon.

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
The Oseberg Ship
The culture of northern Heathendom
The causes of the Viking Age
'The devastation of all the islands of Britain by the Heathens'
The Vikings in the Carolingian empire
Across the Baltic
The Danelaw I: Occupation
The settlement of Iceland
Rollo and the Norman colony
The master-builder: Harald Bluetooth and the Jelling Stone
The Danelaw II: Assimilation
When Allah met Odin
A piece of horse's liver: The pragmatic Christianity of H�kon The Good
Greenland and North America
Ragnar�k in Iceland
St Brice, St Alphege and the Wolf: The fall of Anglo-Saxon England
The Viking saint
Heathendom's last bastion
Notes
Index