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Viking Legacy

2018-05-26 Fiction
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Release : 2018-05-26
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Book Synopsis Viking Legacy by : Torgrim Titlestad

Download or read book Viking Legacy written by Torgrim Titlestad. This book was released on 2018-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than marauders and bloodthirsty conquerors, the Vikings were builders of a civilization which influence may still be seen in the modern world. The Viking Age is arguably one of the most fascinating epochs in history, and in this book, a new narrative is presented based on Viking history as it is told in the Norse Sagas. Viking Legacy represents a new generation of books exploring the Viking Age. By integrating the Saga literature with other sources, a more complete picture emerges of this increasingly popular era, and a civilization that would change the course of history. Torgrim Titlestad, professor, dr.philos. is one of Norway’s foremost experts and most prolific authors on the Viking Age and Saga history. He is the recipient of the Saga Award (2016) and was appointed Knight of the Order of the Falcon (2017) by Iceland’s President, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, for his work with the Norse sagas, especially Tormod Torfæus’ Magnum Opus Historia Rerum Norvegicarum and the Icelandic saga treasure Flateyjarbók.

The Viking Legacy

1971 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 1971
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis The Viking Legacy by : John Geipel

Download or read book The Viking Legacy written by John Geipel. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Age of the Vikings

2014-09-07 History
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Release : 2014-09-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Age of the Vikings by : Anders Winroth

Download or read book The Age of the Vikings written by Anders Winroth. This book was released on 2014-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacy The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings

2001 History
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Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings by : P. H. Sawyer

Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings written by P. H. Sawyer. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were the Vikings, as an early description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or in the words of a Manx folksong, "war-wolves keen in hungry quest', who lived and died by the sea and the sword? Or were they unusually successful merchants, extortionists, and pioneer explorers? This book considers the latest research and presents an authoritative account of the Vikings and their age. Excavations as far apart as Dublin and Newfoundland, York and Russia, provide fascinating archaeological evidence, expertly interpreted in this extensively illustrated book.

Outbreak of the Viking Age

2018-06-06
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Release : 2018-06-06
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Book Synopsis Outbreak of the Viking Age by : Torgrim Titlestad

Download or read book Outbreak of the Viking Age written by Torgrim Titlestad. This book was released on 2018-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was it sheer lust for conquest that drove Scandinavian warriors to attack the monastery at Lindisfarne in the year AD 793? Or was the raid a reaction to Charles the Great's massacres on the European continent, and his destruction of the Saxon holy shrine, Irminsul? Does a letter from the monk Alcuin contain a "smoking gun" which suggests there were already plans to convert the 'heathens' in the North to Christianity? In this new book about the causes of the outbreak of the Viking Age, historian Torgrim Titlestad gives a voice to the legendary warriors who helped shape one of the most controversial epochs in European history.

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