Vikings: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Vikings: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192806079

ISBN-10: 0192806076

ISBN-13: 9780192806079

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Julian D. Richards

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The Viking reputation is one 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 and linguistic culture, whose expansion overseas led them to cross the Atlantic for the first time in European history. Highlighting the latest archaeological evidence, Julian Richards reveals the whole Viking world: their history, their culture, and their legacy of overseas expansion for trade, colonization, and plunder. Viking identity is explored through what we have learned about their towns, art, shipbuilding, and religious rituals. Here the Viking…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



List of illustrations



Vikings then and now



Early Scandinavian kingdoms



Pagans and Christians



Changes in the countryside



Towns and trade



Across the ocean: seafaring and overseas expansion



Settlers in England



Raiders and traders around the Irish Sea



Vikings and Picts: genocide or assimilation?



Landnam in the North Atlantic



The edge of the world: Greenland and North America



Reinventing the Vikings


Timeline


Further reading


Index