Routledge, 2020. — 328 p. This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with...
Routledge, 2020. — 328 p. This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with...
Routledge, 2020. — 328 p. This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with...
Watkins Publishing, 2019. — 144 p. A superbly illustrated introduction to the famously warlike seafaring peoples of Scandinavia - a civilisation with a vivid mythology of gods, dwarves and magic, as well as a heritage of brilliant craftsmanship. Viking artefacts discovered across a vast geographical range, from Russia and modernday Turkey to Greenland and North America, bear...
Birka Project for Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2003. — (Birka Studies, 8). In connection with the excavations of the Black Earth at Birka in 1990-1995, tools for textile manufacture were found in many houses and in the waste layers around them. When a doctoral student at the Department of Archaeology at Lund University, Eva Andersson, began to take an interest in these types of...
Nordic Academic Press, 2014. — 248 p. The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén offers a long-term perspective on Old Norse...
Uppsala University, 2013. — 288 p. The book about Vikings in the East deals with cultural contacts and exchange along the road to Byzantium. Can we trace the Scandinavian presence in Eastern Europe on the basis of written sources and archaeological finds? Who were the Rus? And Varangians? What was the difference between these two groups of Scandinavian origin active in the...
Adams Media, 2017. — 126 p. — ASIN: B01NAX9FPN. This fascinating new book reveals the origins of the Vikings—from Thor and Leif Erikson to Loki and the Valkyries—and the tales that have influenced our own lives. For thousands of years, Vikings have held a storied place in our culture—their distinct appearance, their mighty longships, their reputation for causing death and...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 128 p. The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artifacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonization, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that stayed at home or those that immigrated into Scandinavia, whether voluntarily or by force. This book uses results...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 128 p. The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artifacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonization, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that stayed at home or those that immigrated into Scandinavia, whether voluntarily or by force. This book uses results...
Rocky Mountain Books, 2021. — 376 p. Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history’s most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings! To "go Viking" is to embark on an epic journey. For more than eight years, Bill Arnott journeyed throughout the northern hemisphere, discovering sites Scandinavian explorers raided, traded, and settled – finding...
Amberley Publishing, 2014. — 192 p. The Viking Age was a world very different to our own: a world of violence and magic, swords and slaves. However, there was of course a much more ordinary, everyday side to life. People made things and traded them; they tended crops and livestock; they cooked and looked after their homes; they drank, gambled and went to market. Much has been...
Lerner Publications Company, 1980. — 60 p. Discusses the construction and uses of different types of Viking ships. Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, built by the Vikings during the Viking Age. The boat-types were quite varied, depending on what the ship was intended for, but they were generally characterized as being slender and flexible boats, with...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 320 p. In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide,...
Profile Books, 2024. — 384 p. Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country. Yet while such characters define the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. This is the history of all the other people - children, enslaved...
Brepols Publishers, 2003. — 248 p. — (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 5). This collection of ten papers investigates the Norse colonization of the North Atlantic region, starting with Viking expansion in Arctic Norway and ending with a discussion of the longterm implications of medieval Scandinavian exploration of the New World. Each chapter provides a short regional synthesis...
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 336 p. The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later – saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight an epic campaign. Cnut sailed in two hundred longboats, landing first in September 1015 on...
Amberley Publishing, 2020. — 432 p. The year 1066: a battlefield in England, a mighty king lies prone on the ground, his lifeblood ebbing out of him. As he draws his last breath, the world of which he is the greatest figurehead also moves towards its end, its existence about to pass from history into legend and later into myth. This is not Hastings; it is Stamford Bridge, and the...
Amberley Publishing, 2020. — 432 p. The year 1066: a battlefield in England, a mighty king lies prone on the ground, his lifeblood ebbing out of him. As he draws his last breath, the world of which he is the greatest figurehead also moves towards its end, its existence about to pass from history into legend and later into myth. This is not Hastings; it is Stamford Bridge, and the...
Edited by James Graham-Campbell. — Facts on File, 1994. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0-816030-04-9. The Viking Age was filled with drama. It began in the late 8th century, when pagan pirates from Scandinavia fell upon the undefended monasteries and settlements of western Europe in search of loot and tribute, and ended in the 11th century, when the Scandinavian peoples — converted by...
Editions Tallandier, 2019. — 665 p. Les vikings ont laissé dans les mémoires collectives un ensemble d'images fortes et contradictoires : pirates redoutables semant la terreur, navigateurs intrépides explorant des terres lointaines ou guerriers et commerçants en quête de richesses. Ces représentations ont une histoire et fascinent jusqu'à aujourd'hui, comme en témoigne la vogue...
Presses Universitaires de France, 2014. — 128 p. — (Que sais-je?). L’effet le moins discutable de l’expansion viking fut la dilatation, sur les terres aux marges de l’œkoumène, du monde scandinave qui inclut aujourd’hui les Féroé, l’Islande et le Groenland. L’impact des expéditions et des migrations sur la Scandinavie est souvent présenté comme un retour d’influence déterminant...
Vilnius: Diemedis, 1999. — 300 p.: iliustr. — ISBN 9986-23-063-2. Vakarų Europoje nuo Romos imperijos žlugimo iki pirmojo Kryžiaus žygio tarsi galinga lavina iš Skandinavijos įsiveržę vikingai sudavė paskutinįjį iš didelių pagoniškų smūgių, grasinusių sunaikinti krikščioniškąjį Vakarų pasaulį. Vikingai ne tik siaubė Vakarų ir Vidurio Europą, bet, tiesdami kelią į Bizantiją,...
Walker and Company, 1964. — 150 p. From the violence of the Northmen, O God deliver us! That was the prayer that was often on the lips of the people of Western Europe during the ninth and tenth centuries — and not without reason. Who were these mighty men of the North? Why did they leave their homelands to seek food and plunder? And what heritage did they bring to the countries...
Windgather Press, 2023. — 208 p. This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries. The place-names of East Anglia have until now received little attention in the academic study of...
Windgather Press, 2023. — 208 p. This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries. The place-names of East Anglia have until now received little attention in the academic study of...
Mouton École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1976. — 255 p. Rapports scientifiques publiés sous la direction de Régis Boyer. Faire le point des acquis de la science, tenter quelques synthèses sur les points les plus disputés (la découverte de l’Amérique, la nature même des Vikings par exemple), ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives de recherche, tels sont les objectifs...
PLON, 1991. — 457 p. — ISBN: 2259022367. Pourquoi et comment les Vikings purent-ils se déplacer dans toute l'Europe, de 800 à 1500 environ ? Dans quelles circonstances se sont-ils installés du Groenland à la Normandie et à l'Angleterre ? Comment ont-ils fondé l'Etat russe ? Auraient-ils pu découvrir l'Amérique ? Grâce à des sources archéologiques strictement contemporaines de...
Routledge, 2008. — 740 p. Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first...
Routledge, 2011. — 744 p. — (Routledge Worlds). Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 408 p. Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 408 p. Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 408 p. Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to...
Mariner Books, 2008. — 320 p. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of...
Mariner Books, 2008. — 320 p. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of...
St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 336 p. In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history, and literature to imagine her life and times, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined. Nancy...
St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 336 p. In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history, and literature to imagine her life and times, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined. Nancy...
St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 336 p. In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history, and literature to imagine her life and times, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined. Nancy...
Crux Publishing Ltd., 2014. — 302 p. In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse ‘sea-wolves’ followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down...
University of California Press, 1982. — 294 p. Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society - the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict - is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of...
Penguin Books, 2001. — 447 p. The popular image of the Viking Age is a time of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of Northern Europe. Yet, as Jesse Byock reveals in this deeply fascinating and important history, the society founded by Norsemen in Iceland was far from this picture. It was, in fact, an independent, almost republican Free State, without...
Brepols, 2014. — 278 p. The Viking North Atlantic differs significantly from the popular image of violent raids and destruction characterizing the Viking Age in Northern Europe. In Iceland, Scandinavian seafarers discovered and settled a large uninhabited island. In order to survive and succeed, they adapted lifestyles and social strategies to a new environment. The result was a...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings "discovered" America. The journey described is a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. In between there lies a huge...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings "discovered" America. The journey described is a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. In between there lies a huge...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 208 p. The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 208 p. The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 368 p. — (The Northern World 69). Linked by the politics of global trade networks, Viking Age Europe was a well-connected world. Within this fertile social environment, Iceland ironically has been casted as a marginal society too remote to participate in global affairs, and destined to live in the shadow of its more successful neighbours....
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 208 p. — (General Military). The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. They made history, establishing the dukedom of Normandy, providing the Byzantine Emperors' bodyguard and landing on the shores of America 500 years before Columbus. Beautifully illustrated with colour...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 395 p.
This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived.Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 152 p. — (Studies in Early Medieval History). In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 152 p. In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of...
Four Courts Press, 2015. — 576 p. This book contains contributions by many leading scholars in Viking studies from Ireland, Britain, and Scandinavia, on diverse subjects including archaeological excavation, art historical analysis, linguistics, literature, politics, historical sources, numismatics, environmental remains, human remains, and artifact studies from c.795 to 1170....
Captivating History, 2020. — 136 p. The period between the end of the eighth century CE and the middle of the eleventh is often called the “Viking Age” because this is the period in which Scandinavian people expanded their contacts with the outside world through trade, raiding, exploration, and colonization. This volume presents a version of Ragnar’s saga compiled from...
London: Robinson, 2005. — 273 pp. — (Brief Histories). — ISBN: 1–84529–076–3. Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great...
Robinson Publishing, 2005. — 320 p. Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade and raid along the coasts of Europe. Their influence extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great seafarers or desperate outcasts, noble heathens or oafish pirates, the...
Routledge, 2020. — 292 p. As the politico-economic exploits of vikings in and around the Frankish realm remain, to a considerable extent, obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near-)contemporary evidence, this volume approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of...
Routledge, 2020. — 292 p. As the politico-economic exploits of vikings in and around the Frankish realm remain, to a considerable extent, obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near-)contemporary evidence, this volume approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 268 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). This study traces the history of urbanization in Denmark from c. 500 to 1350 and explores how interconnected political, religious, and economic factors were instrumental in bringing about the growth of towns. Prior to urban development, certain specialized sites such as elite residences and...
Alchemy International Publishing, 2016. — 151 p. As MGM's hit show Vikings on the History Channel follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok and his brother Rollo, TV Historian Ashley Cowie unearths a rare Viking sea chart beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Identifying important seats of power in the Viking's Nordic empire, it indicates a land far to the west of Britain. Is...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went ‘berserk’ in the modern English sense of the word. It examines all the evidence for medieval perceptions of berserkir and builds a model of how the...
Routledge, 2023. — 346 p. The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such unexpected places as a Romanian chalk quarry near the...
Birlinn, 2011. — 224 p. When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking new work by the author of "The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland", the true extent of the Viking...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 256 p. — (Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)). Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant,...
Time-Life Books, 1998. — 142 p. This volume is one in a series on world history that uses contemporary art, artifacts, and personal accounts to create an intimate portrait of daily life in the past. Gathers the contemporary accounts of travelers, scribes, and church officials to depict the daily lives of the Vikings and describe their conquests, settlements, and Atlantic...
Amber Books, 2013. — 224 p. Beginning in 789 AD, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked cities and invaded western Europe. They looted and enslaved their enemies. But that is only part of their story. In long boats they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also sailed up the Seine to Paris (which they sacked). They settled from Newfoundland to Russia, founded...
Amber Books, 2013. — 224 p. Beginning in 789 AD, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked cities and invaded western Europe. They looted and enslaved their enemies. But that is only part of their story. In long boats they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also sailed up the Seine to Paris (which they sacked). They settled from Newfoundland to Russia, founded...
Dunedin Academic Press, 2008. — 358 p. Vikings plagued the coasts of Ireland and Britain in the 790s. By the mid-ninth century vikings had established a number of settlements in Ireland and Britain and had become heavily involved with local politics. A particularly successful viking leader named Ivarr campaigned on both sides of the Irish Sea in the 860s. His descendants dominated...
Dunedin Academic Press, 2008. — 358 p. Vikings plagued the coasts of Ireland and Britain in the 790s. By the mid-ninth century vikings had established a number of settlements in Ireland and Britain and had become heavily involved with local politics. A particularly successful viking leader named Ivarr campaigned on both sides of the Irish Sea in the 860s. His descendants...
VI Kongres Mediewistów Polskich t.4. — Wrocław : Chronicon, 2022. — 124 s. — ISBN 9788396488961. Wstęp. Władysław Duczko. Ruscy wojownicy i ich kobiety. Wschodnioeuropejska kultura Skandynawów w X wieku. Peter Lindbom. A blast from the past. A source critical analysis of an infamous chamber grave from Björkö. Karol Kollinger, Władysław Duczko. Wikińskie Gniozdowo. Największa...
Warszawa: TRIO, 2007. — 213 s. Nowoczesny podręcznik akademicki o powstawaniu tożsamości narodowej społeczności ruskich i skandynawskich, napisany na podstawie najstarszych kronik plemiennych i współczesnych badań archeologicznych. Szczegółowe omówienie splatających się dziejów ziem ruskich i skandynawskich pozwala czytelnikowi wejrzeć w całościową, wielopłaszczyznową strukturę...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 254 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic. She integrates written sources, geoarchaeological data, and zooarchaeological data to...
University Press, 2020. — 114 p. University Press returns with three short and captivating books in one volume - a brief history of three Viking Warriors: Ragnar Lothbrok, Björn Ironside, and Ivar the Boneless. Ragnar Lothbrok was a legendary Viking. A warrior king whose exploits in battle won him the fierce loyalty of his people (and the name "Shaggy-Breeches"), he and his...
Running Press Adult, 2020. — 224 p. Vikings, those ancient Norse seafarers, have inspired plenty of pop culture phenomena, from the A&E hit show Vikings to Thor: Ragnarök , to the ever-expanding world of Viking LARP. Known for being skilled craftspeople, accomplished merchants, hardworking farmers, and masters of the sea, the Vikings were a complex and captivating people....
Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1972. — xix, 217 p. — ISBN 0-385-02585-8. The author discusses the findings of his six-year study on the Norse settlement of America following Leif Eiriksson's explorations. Foreword (Gerard L. Alexander). Author’s Preface. Introduction: The Lost Nation of Greenland. Finding Leif Eiriksson’s America. At Issue: The Norse Word 'Vinland’. The Norse...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 176 p. Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry and also specialised methodologies and/or empirical...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 296 p. In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, constructional solution. Doors control access, generate movement, and demark boundaries, yet...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 177 p. Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry and also specialised methodologies and/or empirical...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 176 p. Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to the final failure of their expansionist ambitions directed against England. In that period Viking warbands and increasingly large armies...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 176 p. Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to the final failure of their expansionist ambitions directed against England. In that period Viking warbands and increasingly large armies...
Brepols, 2019. — 452 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 27). This multi-disciplinary volume draws on the combined expertise of specialists in the history and literature of medieval Ireland, Iceland, Norway, and Scotland to shed new light on the interplay of Norse and Gaelic literary traditions. Through four detailed case-studies, which examine the Norwegian...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 452 p. — ISBN: 978-0-141-01775-4. For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 452 p. — ISBN: 978-0-141-01775-4. For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 464 p. From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plunderers of the Viking Age ruled Norway, Sweden, and Denmark but roamed as far as Byzantium, Greenland, and America. 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...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 464 p. From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plunderers of the Viking Age ruled Norway, Sweden, and Denmark but roamed as far as Byzantium, Greenland, and America. 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...
Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Books, 2019. — 366 p. Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of ‘seven feet of English soil’ in that year of fateful change, 1066. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibly occupying the Norwegian throne, Harald had an interesting (and lucrative) career in...
Western Michigan University, 2019. — 128 p. — (The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe). Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the 'Saga of the Jómsvikings' tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler...
Western Michigan University Press, 2018. — 186 p. Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress off the Baltic coast, and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. This translation...
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970. — xxv, 473 p. This is an account of the Norsemen in the period A.D. 800-1200. To understand the Vikings, the society, technology, art and literature of these vital people, a vast amount of evidence of very different kinds has to be considered. Some of this evidence is literary, philological and archaeological; parts of the evidence only came to...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 461 p. Viking Empires is a definitive new history of five hundred years of Viking civilization and the first study of the global implications of the expansion, integration, and reorientation of the Viking World. From the first contact in the 790s, the book traces the political, military, social, cultural and religious history of the Viking...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2016. — 44 p. The saga of the Vikings rises and falls on the banks of history, ebbing and flowing with popular opinion and whimsical anecdotes. The Vikings are routinely typecast and labeled anywhere from bloodthirsty tyrants to valiant heroes. They have been condemned as pirates and praised as explorers. We have all heard the stories of the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war - to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war - to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless...
Routledge, 2024. — 450 p. This pioneering work offers a meticulous exploration of Scandinavian presence in Viking Age Poland. Unveiling the complexities and controversies of past research and delving into the nuances of reciprocal interactions between Western Slavic and Scandinavian populations as revealed through archaeology and medieval texts, the book casts genuinely new...
Routledge, 2024. — 450 p. This pioneering work offers a meticulous exploration of Scandinavian presence in Viking Age Poland. Unveiling the complexities and controversies of past research and delving into the nuances of reciprocal interactions between Western Slavic and Scandinavian populations as revealed through archaeology and medieval texts, the book casts genuinely new...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 216 p. The Viking Age (c. 750-1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia wreaked havoc across the European continent and when Norse merchants travelled to distant corners of the world in pursuit of slaves, silver, and exotic commodities. Until relatively recently, archaeologists and textual scholars...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 216 p. The Viking Age (c. 750-1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia wreaked havoc across the European continent and when Norse merchants travelled to distant corners of the world in pursuit of slaves, silver, and exotic commodities. Until relatively recently, archaeologists and textual scholars...
Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 266 p. — (Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces 5). This volume presents a state-of-the-art collection of essays on the socio-cultural aspects of the conversion to Christianity in Viking-Age Scandinavia and the Scandinavian colonies of the North Atlantic. The nine scholars, drawn from the disciplines of history, archaeology, and literary...
Routledge, 2018. — 302 p. The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and...
Routledge, 2018. — 302 p. The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and...
København: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1879. — 538 s. Kommissionen for det Arnamagnæanske Legat udgiver herved den Recension af den islandske Fristats Lovsamling Grágás, som findes i det Arnamagnæanske Haandskrift Nr. 334 fol., af Arnas Magnæus kaldet Staðarhólsbók, en af de vigtigste og fortrinligste Membraner, som Legatet er i Besiddelse af. Haandskriftet har været benyttet ved den...
København: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1883. — 716 s. Som bebudet; i Forerindringen til den i 1879 trykte Udgave af Grágás efter det Arnamagnæanske Haandskrift Nr. 334 fol., Staðarhólsbók, udgiver Kommissionen for det Arnamagnæanske Legat herved en Række enkelte Dele af Grágás, som findes særskilt i forskjellige Haandskrifter. Den største Del af det saaledes Udgivne bestaaer af...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 386 p. A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw. Defining the...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 386 p. A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw. Defining the...
Left Coast Press, 2007. — 228 p. In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD. The volume brings together a combination of recent summaries and new work on silver and gold coinage, rings and bullion, which allow a...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 259 p. — ISBN: 1846030889. — (General Military). The Norman Knight was the most feared warrior during the 11th and 12th centuries in Western Europe. Tales of their conquests spread throughout the known world as their military prowess resulted in the capture Sicily in 1060 and England in 1066. This beautifully illustrated book explores the world of the...
The History Press, 2010. — 192 p. Vikings began raiding islands and monasteries on the Atlantic fringes of Europe in the 790s. The Irish Sea rapidly became one of their most productive hunting-grounds. Attacks, battles and destruction were accompanied by trade - in slaves, silver and fine objects. Vikings crossed and re-crossed the Irish Sea in search of land, wealth and power....
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 320 p. The viking invasion and settlement in England has been the subject of a large and complex body of scholarship, with the consensus of opinion among scholars as to its exact nature and influence shifting considerably over the years. This is a fascinating new study which will make an important addition to the literature on the...
Thames & Hudson, 2007. — 248 p. A vivid picture of the Vikings that draws on the latest discoveries and augments written evidence with fine archaeological detail. Here is the complete story of the Vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the early first millennium AD, through the incredible period of raiding, trading, and settling known as the Viking Age and the huge...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 304 p. Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world. How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this groundbreaking work, Lisa Hannett lifts the...
CRC Press, 2014. — 204 p. The Viking Age lasted a little over three centuries, but has left a lasting legacy across Europe. These dynamic warrior-traders from Scandinavia, who fought and interacted with peoples as far apart as North America, Russia, and Central Asia, are some of the most recognizable historical figures in the western world. In the modern imagination they represent...
The Teaching Company, 2005. — 177 p. As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course, you will study the Vikings not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they were equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators...
M. Harrison, K. Durham, I. Heath, R. Chartrand. Foreward by M. Magnusson. — Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 209 p. — (General Military). — ISBN: 978-1-84603-340-3. The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. Viking raids reached from Norway to North Africa, they established the dukedom of Normandy, provided the...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 209 p. — (General Military). The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. Viking raids reached from Norway to North Africa, they established the dukedom of Normandy, provided the Byzantine Emperor's bodyguard and landed on the shores of America 500 years before Columbus. In The...
Head of Zeus, 2015. — 400 p. From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings―a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power meant little more than the ability to pillage and plunder, which...
Mariner Books. 2021. — 512 p. — ISBN 9782020057684, 0358536847. Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers - including the most famous, the Vikings -...
Mariner Books. 2021. — 512 p. — ISBN 9782020057684, 0358536847. Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers - including the most famous, the Vikings -...
Mariner Books. 2021. — 512 p. — ISBN 9782020057684, 0358536847. «An absorbing and humane account... Mr. Herman is at pains to remind us that the Viking world was never just a stage for mayhem. It was, he says, 'about daring to reach for more than the universe had gifted you, no matter the odds and the obstacles.' In short: We might all take our own life's cue from the Viking...
Make Profits Easy, 2016. — 248 p. The world of the Vikings is larger than life, filled with sagas of warriors who made fighting a career, but there’s a lot more to Viking history than blood-letting and piracy. Their achievements, rich culture and craftsmanship contributed greatly to our world today, and their explorations helped make up the boundaries of nations.The Vikings:...
Casemate, 2016. — 400 p. "Vikings at War" presents a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war; their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of Europe and even to...
Casemate, 2016. — 400 p. Vikings at War presents a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war; their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of Europe and even to...
Casemate, 2016. — 400 p. "Vikings at War" presents a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war; their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of Europe and even to...
Casemate, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 9781612005195 From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake, their brutality was exorbitant. Employing sail technology...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 368 p. The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 368 p. The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 368 p. The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering...
The Scarecrow Press, 2003. — 405 с. "The Historical Dictionary of the Vikings" traces Viking activity in Europe, North America, and Asia for over three centuries. During this period people from Scandinavia used their longships to launch lightning raids upon their European neighbors, to colonize new lands in the east and west, and to exchange Scandinavian furs for eastern wine...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 407 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). This book provides a comprehensive work of reference for people interested in the Vikings, including entries on the main historical figures involved in this dramatic period, important battles and treaties, significant archaeological finds, and key works and sources of information on the period. It also summarizes the...
Signal Books, 2007. — 288 p. Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conquest period. This book aims to offer an alternative approach by presenting a history of the Viking Age which considers the whole...
Signal Books, 2007. — 288 p. Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conquest period. This book aims to offer an alternative approach by presenting a history of the Viking Age which considers the whole...
Stockholm University, 2016. — 220 p. — (Proceedings of the International Symposium at the Swedish History Museum, April 17-20th 2013). The idea to hold a conference comparing the Viking sites of Birka and Hedeby in a larger context arose with the cooperation between the Center of Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in Schleswig and the Archaeological research laboratory at...
Routledge, 2021. — 310 p. Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal...
Routledge, 2021. — 310 p. Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal...
Routledge, 2021. — 310 p. Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal...
Routledge, 2021. — 310 p. Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal...
Hourly History, 2023. — 116 p. Discover the remarkable history of the Viking Age through the magnificent book The Viking Age A History from Beginning to End. From the late eighth century to somewhere around the middle of the eleventh century, the history of Europe was dominated by the people who have become known as the Vikings. The Vikings were among the first global explorers...
Amber Books, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78274-305-7. Beginning in 789 CE, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked settlements and invaded the Atlantic coast of Europe and the British Isles. They looted and enslaved their enemies, terrorizing all whom they encountered. But that is only part of their story. Sailing their famous longboats, they discovered Iceland and America...
Amber Books, 2017. — 224 p. Beginning in 789 CE, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked settlements and invaded the Atlantic coast of Europe and the British Isles. They looted and enslaved their enemies, terrorizing all whom they encountered. But that is only part of their story. Sailing their famous longboats, they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 213 p. Understanding the relation of semiology to Western iconography is essential, as it is the element that, often unconsciously, influences perception in Western society. Scholars, such as Klaus Düwel with his outstanding knowledge of runic script, sometimes reach their limits if inscriptions are complemented with abstract images that...
SHP, 2012. — 374 p. This unique and pioneering work takes the reader through a fascinating and rich odyssey of the more than two centuries of links between the Vikings and the Islamic world. Whilst the term Viking conjures up notions of marauding warriors, in actual fact the Scandinavians in the Viking Age were accomplished farmers, craftsmen, traders and much else in addition...
SHP, 2013. — 232 p. This unique and pioneering work takes the reader through a fascinating and rich odyssey of the more than two centuries of links between the Vikings and the Islamic world. Whilst the term Viking conjures up notions of marauding warriors, in actual fact the Scandinavians in the Viking Age were accomplished farmers, craftsmen, traders and much else in addition...
Routledge, 2024. — 350 p. This book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking-Age hoards of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a unique find group in both quantity and quality. The large number of excavated Bornholm hoards enable the inclusion of the...
Routledge, 2024. — 350 p. This book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking-Age hoards of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a unique find group in both quantity and quality. The large number of excavated Bornholm hoards enable the inclusion of the...
Norwegian Archaeological Society, 2021. — 298 p. — (Special Volume 1). The 13 articles presented in this publication represent some of the latest, and most relevant research on Viking warfare from the Viking and early Scandinavian medieval period in Europe. The Vikings fought for power, wealth, and land in many areas of the Northern hemisphere, and left traces of their...
Norwegian Archaeological Society, 2021. — 298 p. — (Special Volume 1). The 13 articles presented in this publication represent some of the latest, and most relevant research on Viking warfare from the Viking and early Scandinavian medieval period in Europe. The Vikings fought for power, wealth, and land in many areas of the Northern hemisphere, and left traces of their...
Arc Humanities Press, 2019. — 228 p. Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the...
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munsgaard Forlag, 1947. — 72 p. The present summary which — besides an introductory review and a table of contents of the lexicon — contains all the texts in English translation, is intended for philologists and historians who might desire to become further acquainted with the Danish work. The translation into English has been undertaken by Miss Eva Nissen. For...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 230 p. This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made between sources emanating from different cultures, such as the Roman Empire, the Abbasid...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 230 p. This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made between sources emanating from different cultures, such as the Roman Empire, the Abbasid...
William Collins, 2021. — 304 p. Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her research - as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking age and follows a small "Carnelian" bead found in a Viking grave in Derbyshire to its origins thousands of miles to the east in Gujarat. Dr Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist, specialising in forensic...
Boydell Press, 2002. — 382 p. — (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology 5). Using the evidence of archaeology, poetry, legal texts and annals, this volume investigates the social, economic and symbolic structures of early Scandinavia at the time of the Viking expansion. The contributors provide an outline ethnography, covering dwellings and settlements, kinship and social...
Routledge, 2015. — 244 p. The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of ‘diaspora’. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only...
Routledge, 2015. — 244 p. The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of ‘diaspora’. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only...
Oslo, Normann, Normanns Kunstforlag, Gudrun Publishing, 2012. - 31 c. Информационная брошюра о культуре, искусстве, литературе, религии и путешествиях викингов. Информация представлена на трех языках: норвежском, английском и немецком.
Oxford University Press, 1969. — 548 p. The subject of this book is the viking realms, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, their emergence and development, civilization and culture, and their many-sided achievement at home and abroad. It is an extensive field to survey. For even when we set aside the almost trackless millennia of my opening pages, there remain a thousand years of...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 556 p. The subject of this book is the Viking realms, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, their civilization and culture, and their many sided achievements at home and abroad. A highly readable narrative follows the development of these Northern peoples--the Nordmenn--from their origins and the legendary pre-history to the military triumphs of Canute...
Oxford University Press, 1986. — 380 p. The Norse Atlantic Saga, a narrative and descriptive account of the Norse, or Viking, voyages of discovery and colonization westward across the North Altantic Ocean, to Iceland, Greenland, and the eastern seaboard of North America, was first published by the Oxford University Press in 1964. This new edition has been substantially enlarged...
Uppsala University, 2018. — 212 p. Famous yet forgotten, the monumental site of Håga just outside Uppsala is mainly associated with the Viking King Björn, though it is in fact the richest Bronze-Age grave in Sweden. The deceased was cremated and buried in an oak-log coffin, together with almost a third of all of Sweden's Bronze Age gold and gold fragments. This book presents...
Riksantikvarieambetets forlag, 2007. — 216 p. Archaeological excavations of prehistoric Scandinavian graves and ritual sites often reveal seemingly enigmatic and contradictory features. Interpretation from a comparative Indo-European perspective allows a partly new approach to material which at first sight seems fragmentary and anonymous. The interpretations in this book...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 300 p. The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological remains offer evidence of this process, which included and intertwined with...
Routledge, 2022. — 214 p. — ISBN 9781003037859. This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus’ and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus’, Byzantium, the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes. The primary focus is the steppe...
Routledge, 2022. — 214 p. This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus’ and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus’, Byzantium, the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes. The primary focus is the steppe influence on the...
Routledge, 2022. — 214 p. This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus’ and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus’, Byzantium, the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes. The primary focus is the steppe influence on the...
Albion Press, 2015. — 412 p. Written by the scholar C.F. Keary, this is a comprehensive look at the life of the Vikings in the ninth century, in the context of Western Europe as Christianity’s influence diminished. Keary starts with the European domination of the Roman Empire, distinguishing Christians from so-called "heathens" who worshipped their own gods. Many of these had...
Albion Press, 2015. — 412 p. Written by the scholar C.F. Keary, this is a comprehensive look at the life of the Vikings in the ninth century, in the context of Western Europe as Christianity’s influence diminished. Keary starts with the European domination of the Roman Empire, distinguishing Christians from so-called "heathens" who worshipped their own gods. Many of these had...
Dover Publications, 2004. — 464 p. This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1930 by "Charles Scribner’s Sons", New York. This enthralling, well-documented, and vivid account chronicles the activities of those bold sea raiders of the North who terrorized Europe from the eighth to the eleventh centuries. A...
Routledge, 2020. — 184 p. Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies, past and present. This book questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. The concept is...
Routledge, 2020. — 184 p. Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies, past and present. This book questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. The concept is...
Hedra, 2018. — 1612 p. Passados cerca de dez séculos desde o seu apogeu na região da Escandinávia, os vikings tornaram-se uma constante no imaginário ocidental contemporâneo. O Dicionário de História e Cultura da Era Viking apresenta ao leitor um guia abrangente para seu mundo, suas aventuras, viagens marítimas, grandes batalhas, explorações e descobertas. Organizado por uma...
Normandie Université, 2021. — 871 p. L’histoire des vikings en Aquitaine s’étend, par intermittence, sur plus de deux siècles, depuis leur première apparition attestée et les attaques sur certaines « îles au large de l’Aquitaine » en 799 jusqu’au début du XIe siècle. Ce sujet, abordé généralement de manière très fragmentaire par les historiens, n’a jamais été approfondi. Les...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 344 p. A fresh account of some of history's greatest warriors. The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, they ranged across Europe — raiding, exploring, colonizing — and their presence was felt as far away as Russia and Byzantium. They are most famous as warriors, yet perhaps...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 344 p. The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, they ranged across Europe — raiding, exploring, colonizing — and their presence was felt as far away as Russia and Byzantium. They are most famous as warriors, yet perhaps their talent for warfare is too little understood. Philip Line,...
Second edition. — London and New York: Routledge, 1991. — 224 pp. — ISBN: 0-415-08396-6. The second edition of this lively and comprehensive book provides a forceful reassessment of the role of the Vikings in history. Drawing on archaeological, literary, as well as historical evidence, the author describes the Viking expeditions overseas, and their transformation from...
3rd Edition — Routledge, 2005. — 224 p. Completely updated to include important primary research, archaeological findings and debates from the last decade, this third edition of F. Donald Logan's successful book examines the Vikings and their critical role in history. The author uses archaeological, literary and historical evidence to analyze the Vikings' overseas expeditions...
Arc Humanities Press, 2019. — 114 p. Most overviews dealing with eastern Vikings have cast the Eastern Baltic peoples in a predominantly passive role during the large-scale Viking movement into the region. This book demonstrates how communication networks over the Baltic Sea and further east were established and how they took different forms in the northern and the southern...
E.P. Dutton, 1980. — 320 p. — ISBN 0-525-22892-6. The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both mythologically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson’s indispensable study of this great people presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a nation who, in modern eyes, would seem to embody striking contradictions. They...
Revised Edition. — Tempus, 2003. — 336 p. The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both mythologically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson’s indispensable study of this great people presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a nation who, in modern eyes, would seem to embody striking contradictions. They were...
French Edition. — ÉDITIONS JEAN-PAUL GISSEROT, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN: B00SXBLYFI Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la...
Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN B00SXBLYFI. Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la géopolitique contemporaine...
Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN B00SXBLYFI. Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la géopolitique contemporaine...
Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2015. — 130 p. — ASIN B00SXBLYFI. Les trois siècles que couvre la période viking entre 750 et 1050 marquent une étape importante dans la formation politique de l’Europe. Tout à la fois pirates et guerriers redoutés mais aussi navigateurs, marchands et colons efficaces, leurs traces peuvent encore se lire dans la géographie et la géopolitique contemporaine...
Passes composes, 2022. — 285 p. Biographie de ce personnage qui a régné sur le Danemark dans la seconde moitié du Xe siècle. Artisan de l'unification du royaume danois, ce roi viking a également été celui qui l'a converti au christianisme. Par son action et les liens qu'il a entretenu avec l'Empire ottonien, le pays a pleinement intégré un monde européen alors engagé dans une...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. — 453 p. — (Haut Moyen Âge 27). Marchands, pirates et autres voyageurs n’ont pas attendu le viie siècle pour prendre la mer. Toutefois, alors que les échanges, tant commerciaux que culturels, se développent fortement et que la voile fait son apparition dans les mers nordiques, le contexte est propice à l’essor de grands ports marchands...
The History Press, 2007. — 256 p. One of the greatest medieval warriors Harald Sigurdsson, nicknamed Hardrada (Harold the Ruthless or hard ruler) fell in battle in an attempt to snatch the crown of England. The spectacular and heroic career which ended at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire on 25 September 1066 had taken Harald from Norway to Russia and Constantinople and saw him gain...
Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History University, 2016. — 284 p. A thousand years ago there stood a small church overlooking a fjord now called Tunuliarfik in southern Greenland, but at that distant time it bore the name of the chieftain upon whose land the church was built – Eiriksfjord. Its wooden beams...
Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2016. — 272 p. The trade of silver in Viking Age Scandinavia is intertwined with the development and collapse of long distance trade routes stretching as far as the North Atlantic in the West to Central Asia in the East. Hedeby, a Viking emporium, was an important gateway of trade between the Baltic and North Seas, and this makes it is an ideal place to...
Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2016. — 272 p. The trade of silver in Viking Age Scandinavia is intertwined with the development and collapse of long distance trade routes stretching as far as the North Atlantic in the West to Central Asia in the East. Hedeby, a Viking emporium, was an important gateway of trade between the Baltic and North Seas, and this makes it is an ideal place to...
PACT, 1997. — 280 p. — (Birka Studies, 4). This volume, published jointly as PACT 52 and Birka Studies 4, is devoted to the environmental history of Viking Age urban sites and their hinterlands, with special reference to Birka, Sweden. The analysis of pollens, diatoms, phytoliths, soil chemistry, macrofossils (fruits, seeds, plant remains, molluscs), the magnetic susceptibility...
Kraków: Avalon, 2013. — 365 s. — ISBN 9788377300916 Prezentowana książka przedstawia życie i panowanie Knuta Wielkiego, króla Anglii, Danii i Norwegii. Knut wywodził się z duńskiej dynastii Jelling, był synem Swena Widłobrodego, który w 1013 r. podbił Anglię. Knut poszedł w ślady ojca i w 1017 r., po dwóch latach zmagań wojennych, został królem Anglii. W 1019 r., po śmierci...
Peter Bedrick Books, 1996. — 33p. — ISBN: 0-439-15535-5 Fact..The Vikings reached America five hundred years before Christopher Columbus.Fact..The average life expectancy of a Viking was around 50 years. Being born was the most dangerous part. So what was it like? Did they go to school? How did they keep warm? Did they go on vacation? Find out these facts and much more in "First...
London: W. Heinemann, 1911. — 384 р. Accounts of the earliest exploration of the Arctic are scattered through many literatures. In writing this work, reissued here in the two-volume English translation of 1911, the celebrated Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) returned to many of the original sources. Calling on others to help him interpret texts in several languages,...
London: W. Heinemann, 1911. — 438 p. Accounts of the earliest exploration of the Arctic are scattered through many literatures. In writing this work, reissued here in the two-volume English translation of 1911, the celebrated Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) returned to many of the original sources. Calling on others to help him interpret texts in several languages,...
Lucent Books,2011. – 114 с. Серия: World History ISBN: 978-1-4205-0316-6 Книга из серии World History знакомит читателя с базовыми фактами о викингах: обряды, образ жизни, быт, военное дело, походы и поиски новых земель. Издание иллюстрировано цветными и черно-белыми фотографиями и рисунками.
Routledge, 2018. — 446 p. How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North...
Routledge, 2018. — 446 p. How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North...
D.S. Brewer, 1994. — 212 p. The fortunes of three early 6th-century Northern dynasties feature prominently in poem Beowulf. Dr Newton suggests that references in the poem to the heroes whose names are listed in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies indicate that such Northern dynastic concerns are most likely to have been fostered in the kingdom of East Anglia. He supports his work...
Routledge, 2024. — 262 p. — (Critical Heritages of Europe). Viking Heritage and History in Europe presents new research and perspectives on the use of the Vikings in public history, especially in relation to museums, re-creation, and re-enactment in a European context. Taking a critical heritage approach, the volume provides new insights into the re-creation of history,...
Routledge, 2024. — 262 p. Viking Heritage and History in Europe presents new research and perspectives on the use of the Vikings in public history, especially in relation to museums, re-creation, and re-enactment in a European context. Taking a critical heritage approach, the volume provides new insights into the re-creation of history, imagining the past, interpretation,...
Brepols Publichers, 2011. — 355 p. — (Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2). This volume is the first to delve into Norway's history of Christianization since 1973 when Fridtjov Birkeli published his book on the topic. For the first time in over thirty years, Dr Nordeide illuminates the change from non-Christian to Christian rituals by analysing archaeological resources...
ARC Humanities Press, 2019. — 126 p. This book presents a fresh overview of the Vikings from both conceptual and material perspectives. The prevailing image of a Viking is frequently that of a fierce male, associated with military expansion and a distinctive material culture. In an engaging survey, Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide and Kevin J. Edwards analyse Viking religion, economic...
Pegasus Books, 2014. — 336 p. The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the West and as far as Baghdad in the East. As the Vikings did not write their own history,...
Pegasus Books, 2014. — 336 p. The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the West and as far as Baghdad in the East. As the Vikings did not write their own history,...
Pegasus Books, 2014. — 336 p. The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the West and as far as Baghdad in the East. As the Vikings did not write their own history,...
Stockholm University Press, 2019. — 398 p. The aim of this book is to investigate the taking and giving of hostages in peace processes during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in Scandinavia and adjacent areas. Scandinavia has been absent in previous research about hostages from the perspectives of legal and social history, which has mostly focused on Antiquity (the Roman...
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967. — 163 p. Scandinavia In The Stone And Bronze Ages. Early Village Communities. The Great Encounter. The Peat Bogs And Their Contents. The Voice Of The East. Craftsmen And Kings. At The Court Of The Svea King Ioq. The Viking Raids. Plates (between pages 138 and 139). Notes On The Plates.
Edinburgh University Press, 1989. — 110 р. The two Icelandic sagas in this volume open a small window on the hazy world of Scandinavian Vikings in eleventh-century Russia. The brief glimpses they give us of an obscure corner of European history are intriguing, not so much because of the light they throw on the lives of Yngvar Eymundsson and Eymund Hringsson as for the elusive...
I.B.Tauris, 2018. — 288 p. Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious...
I.B.Tauris, 2018. — 288 p. Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious...
Vintage Digital, 2014. — 464 p. The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries...
Norbakk Press, 1998. — 218 p. This popular history of the Norwegian Viking era features lively accounts of the Kings and their families along with illustrations. Eva Mildred Mykleby Pearson has been a Norwegian Viking researcher for twenty-five years. She is the author of a genealogical, historical book, I Remember! I Remember! Your Viking Heritage, and is a lecturer on the...
Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, 2019. — 376 p. — (Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, 155. Runrön, 21). The aim of this dissertation is to represent as clearly as possible the genre of 'Viking-Age runic plates' by developing readings and interpretations of the inscriptions on the 46 metal plates with runes from the Viking Age known today. Several...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 298 p. ISBN: 0-19-820526-0 With settlements stretching across a vast expanse--from Newfoundland in North America to Kiev in the heart of the Ukraine--and with legends of their exploits extending even farther, the Vikings were the most far-flung and feared people of their time. Yet the archaeological and historical records are so scant that the...
Kristiania: 1919. — 237 p. Det er nu 7 aar siden jeg begyndte dette arbeide over vikingetidens sverd. Vaaren 1912 gjorde jeg mine første optegnelser og rids av ikingetidssverdene i Universitetets Oldsaksamling uten dog endnu at tænke paa en samlet bearbeidelse av det hele lands materiale. Med tildels aarelange avbrytelser har jeg siden i ledige stunder beskjæftiget mig med...
Konrad Theiss, 2017. — 192 p. Die Wikinger faszinieren bis heute durch die verschiedenen Facetten ihrer Kultur. Sie sind Seefahrer und Siedler, Händler und Plünderer, Krieger und Handwerker. Das alles verbindende Element ist das Reisen. Der gut recherchierte und reich bebilderte Reiseführer von Barbara Post und Stefan Lipsky ist der perfekte Begleiter für Ihre eigenen...
Konrad Theiss, 2017. — 192 p. Die Wikinger faszinieren bis heute durch die verschiedenen Facetten ihrer Kultur. Sie sind Seefahrer und Siedler, Händler und Plünderer, Krieger und Handwerker. Das alles verbindende Element ist das Reisen. Der gut recherchierte und reich bebilderte Reiseführer von Barbara Post und Stefan Lipsky ist der perfekte Begleiter für Ihre eigenen...
Brepols, 2011. — 360 p. — (The Medieval Countryside 9). This volume aims to define the changing nature of lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia. Advances in settlement archaeology and cultural geography have revealed new aspects of social power in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. The organization of settlement is increasingly well understood and gives...
Uppsala, 2002. — 435 p. Lists of figures and tables. Abbreviations. Preface and acknowledgements. A note on language. Anoteon'seid'. Different Vikings? Towards a cognitive archaeology of the later Iron Age . A beginning at Birka. Textual archaeology and the Iron Age. The Vikings in (pre)history. The materiality of text. Annaliste archaeology and a historical anthropology of the...
Viking Society for Northern Research, 1989. — 124 p. Before the ninth century, early medieval Brittany proper was the area west of the linguistic boundary dividing places with Breton and Prankish names (i.e. the Franko-Breton March), broadly corresponding to the course of the river Vilaine. After that date, and certainly in a Viking context, Brittany extended to roughly its...
Athens: Norwegian Institute at Athens, 2023. — 278 p. — (Papers and Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 14). This book collects the proceedings of the first-ever academic conference on the Vikings in the Mediterranean, held in Athens on 27-30 November 2019. Beginning with the research history of the Vikings in the Middle Sea, the papers gathered here review the...
Routledge, 2023. — 228 p. The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over...
Routledge, 2023. — 228 p. The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over...
Basic Books, 2020. — 624 p. 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...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 432 p. Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 432 p. Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to...
Crítica, 2021. — 640 p. Os maiores guerreiros de todos os tempos. Entre os séculos XVII e o XI, a Era dos Vikings viu uma expansão sem precedentes dos povos escandinavos. Como comerciantes e invasores, exploradores e colonos, eles foram da Europa para a América do Norte e Ásia. Eram os maiores e mais temidos guerreiros do mundo. Mas, durante anos, tiveram sua história contada...
National Geographic, 2024. — 336 p. For fans of provocative history and “Game of Thrones” alike, this revisionist narrative reveals how the little-known women of the Viking era shaped their world. Until Scandinavia converted to Christianity and came under the rule of powerful kings, the Vikings were a dominant force in the medieval world. Outfitted with wind-powered sailing...
Inner Traditions, 2023. — 456 p. - Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestri-bygd and Eystri-bygd - Shares extensive evidence from the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far North as well as surviving sculptural art to show how the Vikings and the Inuit formed a harmonious community -...
Inner Traditions, 2023. — 456 p. - Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestri-bygd and Eystri-bygd - Shares extensive evidence from the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far North as well as surviving sculptural art to show how the Vikings and the Inuit formed a harmonious community -...
Four Courts Press, 2015. — 536 p. This volume contains contributions from leading scholars working at the forefront of Irish medieval studies. It includes essays on archaeology, ecclesiology, hagiography, medieval history, genealogy, language and literature, toponymy and digital humanities. Subjects explored include: Latin and learning in early medieval Ireland; the historical...
Routledge, 2024. — 372 p. Different approaches have been conducted to analyse the interactions of the different belief systems in the early medieval world. This book assesses the relationship between clerics and Scandinavian-influenced laity in the Irish Sea area through the placement of furnished graves at or near ecclesiastical sites in the ninth through the eleventh...
Routledge, 2024. — 372 p. Different approaches have been conducted to analyse the interactions of the different belief systems in the early medieval world. This book assesses the relationship between clerics and Scandinavian-influenced laity in the Irish Sea area through the placement of furnished graves at or near ecclesiastical sites in the ninth through the eleventh...
Routledge, 2024. — 344 p. This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of their westward diaspora. Even though a number of spectacular examples have captured the imagination of professionals and the public alike, multiple burials have not been the...
Routledge, 2024. — 344 p. This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of their westward diaspora. Even though a number of spectacular examples have captured the imagination of professionals and the public alike, multiple burials have not been the...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 169 p. — (Very Short Introductions). 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? Landnám in the...
The History Press, 2004. — 240 p. This book is about the development of Anglo-Saxon England from AD 800 until the Norman Conquest. It is an introduction to the subject of the Vikings in England. From shortly before AD 800 until the Norman Conquest, England was subject to raids from seafaring peoples from Scandinavia - the Vikings. However, they were not only raiders but also...
The History Press, 2004. — 240 p. This book is about the development of Anglo-Saxon England from AD 800 until the Norman Conquest. It is an introduction to the subject of the Vikings in England. From shortly before AD 800 until the Norman Conquest, England was subject to raids from seafaring peoples from Scandinavia - the Vikings. However, they were not only raiders but also...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 216 p. For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet...
Kristiania: Cammermeyers Boghandel, 1923. — 84 s. De fleste haandskrifter av Magnus Lagabøters bylov gjengir ikke hele loven fuldstændig, men henviser til landsloven hvor de to er enslydende. Paa samme maate henviser nærværende oversættelse til professor dr. Absalon Tarangers oversættelse av landsloven. Dog bemerkes at den ikke følger nogen enkelt av de forkortede tekster, men er...
Revised Edition. — Penguin, 1998. — 372 p. Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial...
Editora Vozes, 2021. — 290 p. Sumário. Agradecimentos e dedicatória. Prefácio. O trabalho do tempo: conhecer a violência na história. No labirinto documental, um fio de sangue. Chuva de sangue: sobre a diversidade da violência. O que há em um nome? – O governo dos reis em disputa. Em busca de unidade: a violência viking como processo histórico. Um arremate: o que foi a...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. Investigates the complex lives of famous Vikings, examining their spirituality, ambitions, and legendary adventures beyond mere conquest. Vikings. One of history’s most recognisable archetypes. These hardy warriors enjoyed fighting and conquering, but there was much more to the culture than physical might. A deep sense of spirituality and...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. Investigates the complex lives of famous Vikings, examining their spirituality, ambitions, and legendary adventures beyond mere conquest. Vikings. One of history’s most recognisable archetypes. These hardy warriors enjoyed fighting and conquering, but there was much more to the culture than physical might. A deep sense of spirituality and...
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — 383 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 121). Norse researchers have been studying the berserkir for centuries without coming to a consensus about this phenomenon. Samson uses a comparative examination of literary and archeological sources to present the historical context surrounding the animal-warriors and...
Particular Books, 2022. — 368 p. — (Adventures in Time). Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We'll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred's England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the...
Particular Books, 2022. — 368 p. — (Adventures in Time). Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We'll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred's England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 320 p. Until very recently Viking and Norse assembly sites were essentially unknown, apart from a few select sites, such as Thingvellir in Iceland. The Vikings are well-known for their violence and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal cases and conflict resolution. Using archaeological...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 320 p. Until very recently Viking and Norse assembly sites were essentially unknown, apart from a few select sites, such as Thingvellir in Iceland. The Vikings are well-known for their violence and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal cases and conflict resolution. Using archaeological...
Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 364 p. What happens when scholars cross outside the perceived ‘boundaries’ of their discipline? What problems arise when a scholar trained in one field employs materials or methodologies from an adjacent subject area, engaging with new sources, research methodologies, and traditions, and how can such issues be resolved? Taking as its starting point...
Routledge, 1982. — 192 p. Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion.
I.B.Tauris, 2010. — xxvi, 277 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84511-869-3. Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards to North America, setting foot on its shores five hundred years before Columbus' first journeys of discovery. But by about AD 1500 their settlements were abandoned and the...
Helsinki-Copenhagen: The Northern Dimension Partnership of Culture (NCDP), 2012. — 138 pp. The main objectives of the preprint was to map and give an account of the Viking Route heritage sites located in Russia, to reveal the most important of them and to analyse their status today when it comes to maintenance, marketing and open up for tourism. This book is edited within the...
Routledge, 2020. — 370 p. This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early...
Routledge, 2020. — 370 p. This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early...
Birlinn, 2022. — 272 p. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered and London Bridge...
Birlinn Ltd., 2022. — 272 p. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered and London...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. — 615 p. This book comprises papers by Irish and overseas scholars on aspects of the Viking Age relating to Ireland and the western Viking world. The contributions focus on Viking-age archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, numismatics, placenames, and runology. The major themes explored in the book include: Viking-age Ireland, the...
Routledge, 2020. — 498 p. That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What brought the dirhams to...
Routledge, 2020. — 498 p. That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What brought the dirhams to...
Reaktion Books, 2018. — 368 p. Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it is...
Reaktion Books, 2018. — 368 p. Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it is...
McFarland, 2010. — 283 p. The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-Age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were...
Westholme Publishing, 2021. — 352 p. An Interdisciplinary Study of Viking Martial Culture that Dispels Myths and Expands Our Understanding of the Medieval Norse World. Sometime near the end of the tenth century, a man named Fraði died in Sweden. His kinsmen raised a granite runestone to his memory in Denmark. The carved message appears to tell us that Fraði was “first among all...
Westholme Publishing, 2021. — 352 p. An Interdisciplinary Study of Viking Martial Culture that Dispels Myths and Expands Our Understanding of the Medieval Norse World. Sometime near the end of the tenth century, a man named Fraði died in Sweden. His kinsmen raised a granite runestone to his memory in Denmark. The carved message appears to tell us that Fraði was “first among all...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 224 p. In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings , Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 224 p. In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings , Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and...
Brill, 2017. — 300 p. — (The Northern World 78). Sturla Þórðarson is one of only a handful of thirteenth-century Icelandic historians to be known by name, and he is certainly one of the most significant. A number of works may be traced directly to his literary-cultural circle, notably Landnámabók ( The Book of Settlements ), Íslendinga saga ( The Saga of Icelanders ) and...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 224 p. In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 192 p. "To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short." - Odin, from the Havamal (c. 1000). Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In...
With commentary essay by Torstein Jørgensen. — Routledge, 2021. — 270 p. The Gulathing Law regulates relations between the social classes, the king and his officers, the clergy, and the peasantry. Parts of the law appear to be a social contract between two parties: on the one hand the people, on the other hand the church and the king. This new edition, in modern English,...
Pushkin Press, 2021. — 400 p. A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo conflicts and brings the bloody period to life. In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war...
Aarhus University Press, 2008. — 386 p. — (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series 2. Norske Oldfunn XXIII). This second volume concerning the excavations in the Viking-period town Kaupang in 1998–2003 examines types of find used in economic transactions: coins, silver ingots, hacksilver, balances and weights. Changes in the type and volume of economic transactions at...
Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter, 2017. — 916 p. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 104). The Royal manor Avaldsnes in southwest Norway holds a rich history testified by 13th century sagas and exceptional graves from the first millennium AD. In 2011–12 the settlement was excavated. In this first book from the project crucial results from an...
New York: Dover Publications, 1988 -50 pgs. Dover Pictorial Archive Series. One of the most colorful periods in history was the Viking age (roughly 800-1100 A.D.), when the Scandinavian peoples entered the international scene in an unparalleled burst of activity-often violent. The information in the book makes use of the most recent generally shared opinions of recognized...
Brill, 2007. — xxx, 586 p. — (The Northern World 31). This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of...
Second Revised Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 528 p. In assembling, translating, and arranging over a hundred primary source readings, Somerville and McDonald successfully illuminate the Vikings and their world for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking Age is brought to life through the range of sources presented, and the...
4th Edition. — University of Toronto Press, 2025. — 576 p. The fourth edition of The Viking Age provides an extensive deep dive into the world of the Vikings, spanning from the eighth and ninth centuries to the present, while also featuring key scholarly interpretations from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Building on the structure and content of previous...
3rd Revised Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 552 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4875-7048-4, 978-1-4875-7049-1, 978-1-4875-7047-7, 978-1-4875-7050-7. In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader , Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 160 p. This book, the first in our Companions to Medieval Studies series, is a brief introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Viking Age and provides an essential foundation for study of the period. The companion begins by defining the Viking Age and explores topics such as Viking society and religion. Viking biographies...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 160 p. This book, the first in our Companions to Medieval Studies series, is a brief introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Viking Age and provides an essential foundation for study of the period. The companion begins by defining the Viking Age and explores topics such as Viking society and religion. Viking biographies...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 2nd edition — 404 p. ; maps, illus. The Vikings burst onto the scene in a flash, startling the world with the reach and extent of their raids and the overwhelming destruction they wrought. Their unconventional war strategies, which left the enemy helpless and defenseless, built their reputation as brutal, bloodthirsty...
2. Auflage. — Propyläen Verlag, 2019. — 480 s. Die Wikinger gelten als verwegene Kerle, die auf ihren Drachenschiffen Schrecken und Verderben über das mittelalterliche Europa brachten. Sie kannten keine Grenzen, fürchteten weder Tod noch Teufel und ihre einzige Sorge galt dem Nachschub an Met – so denken wir. Doch wer waren die Wikinger wirklich? Mut, Abenteuerdrang und...
Prentmet, 2014. — 442 p. Since the 19th century, when the Icelandic Sagas were made available in translated and printed editions and the first Viking ships were unearthed, the Viking Age has been an historical period of worldwide fascination. The Viking Age has not only been crucially important in defining the national heritage of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the period...
Brill, 2015. — 664 p. — (Numen 150). In An Arena for Higher Powers Olof Sundqvist investigates ceremonial buildings and religious ruler strategies in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (i.e. AD 550-1050/1100). The author offers here an account of the role played by religion in political undertakings among the pre-Christian ruling elites at halls and cultic buildings. Sundqvist applies a...
Ed. by K. Robberstad. — 2nd ed. — Oslo: Nationaltrykkeriet, 1935. — 102 p. Forord Ved sin død efterlot professor Taranger manuskript til en ny utgave av Utsikt over den norske retts historie bd. I. Det omfattet den største del av boken. Efter anmodning har jeg forestått utgivelsen. På mange steder har jeg forkortet og til dels omskrevet manuskriptet, for at boken skulde bevare sin...
NY.: Columbia University Press, 1935. – 451 p. The oldest Norwegian laws, those of Gula and Frosta, go back to a time when the culture of the Middle Ages was still a somewhat novel experience in Northern Europe. Though the copies that have survived seem to date from the twelfth century and later, the codes must, in considerable part, have taken form in the eleventh century, or as...
The Saga Publishing Company, 2018. — 408 p. 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...
The Saga Publishing Company, 2018. — 408 p. 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...
New York: J. G. Shea, 1891. — 102 p. The work of Torfaeus, a learned Icelander, which is here presented was the first book in which the story of the discovery of Vinland by the Northmen was made known to general readers. After the appearance of his work, the subject slumbered, until Rafn in this century attempted to fix the position of the Vinland of Northern accounts. Since...
Blackthorn Press, 2014. — 336 p. In 866, the city of York was captured by a "Great Army" of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader ‘shared out the land of the Northumbrians, and they proceeded to plough and to support themselves’. This conquest and settlement marked...
Blackthorn Press, 2014. — 336 p. In 866, the city of York was captured by a "Great Army" of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader ‘shared out the land of the Northumbrians, and they proceeded to plough and to support themselves’. This conquest and settlement marked...
Myrddin Publishing, 2017. — 224 p. Lagertha was known to be one of the wives of the famous Viking, Ragnar Lodbrok. But did you know they first met each other at a brothel? And just how long did their marriage last? Was Lagertha really the revered shield maiden we see her as today? 'Vikings: The Truth About Lagertha And Ragnar' aims to unravel all these secrets. 'Vikings: The...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 120 p. The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 120 p. The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 120 p. The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2008. — 206 p. Era necesaria una historia sobre los vikingos, una cultura presente en el imaginario popular actual, que se sobrepusiera a los mitos que se han establecido como verdad absoluta, de pueblo beligerante y aguerrido exclusivamente y nos llevara a conocer un poco más: Breve Historia de los Vikingos es esa obra. El libro no sólo se cierra en los...
Замки и ключи эпохи викингов. Включены в этот документ ранее не опубликованные данные из раскопок в Лундстрем в
Paviken, Västergarn, Готланд между 1968-1971, и новых данных из раскопок 2013
Author n/a. — Manx National Heritage, 2003. — 32 p. — ISBN: 0-901106-38-0. Viking Arrival. Everyday Life. Tools and Weapons. Clothes & Jewellery. Viking Ships. Trade. Beliefs & Myths. Stories in the Stones. Kingdom of Mann & the Isles. Viking Legacy.
The British Museum, 2008. — 25 p. The term Viking covers all the pagan peoples of Scandinavia who spoke Old Norse, and originated in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Gotland. The Vikings were mainly farmers, fishers, hunters and skilled craft workers. Many Vikings traded with Europe, Russia and Asia, exchanging furs, walrus ivory, amber and slaves for silver, gold and luxury goods...
Routledge, 2024. — 260 p. The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway. Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of present-day society, culture, and politics and the role of...
The History Press, 2013. — 447 p. Martyn Whittock argues that without the Viking Wars there would have been no united England in the tenth century, no rise of the Godwin family and their conflict with Edward the Confessor, no Norman connection, no Norman Conquest and no Domesday Book. All of these features of English history were the products, or by-products, of these wars and...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 272 p. Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have traveled far and wide, not least across the turbulent seas of our minds and imaginations. The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary....
Stockholm University Press, 2019. — 448 p. The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion , focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life. More broadly expressed, the collection looks at the social, ceremonial and material contexts of myths. This topic has been underexplored in previous research on...
Hirmer, 2014. — 288 S. Furchteinflößend, ungezähmt, barbarisch die Wikinger gelten als wilde Krieger, aber auch als wagemutige Seefahrer und geschickte Handwerker. Ihre außergewöhnlichen Fertigkeiten beim Schiffsbau ermöglichten ihnen weite Reisen auf dem Meer. Erstmals seit 20 Jahren widmet sich eine spektakuläre internationale Ausstellung den Wikingern und präsentiert...
William Collins, 2017. — 416 p. To many, the word ‘Viking’ brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of marauders from beyond the sea rampaging around the British coastline in the last gloomy centuries before the Norman Conquest. It is true that Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent, violent place. The kings and warlords who have impressed their memories on the period...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 192 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-786497-71-9. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Vikings have been understood in a straightforward way - but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its...
New York: Cornell University Press, 1966. — 173 p "In this book we have attempted to outline the history of the art of the Vikings -a people who were considered by their contemporaries to be barbarians. Our history touches but one facet of a rich culture which affected the whole of north-western Europe and, whether the Vikings are interpreted as barbarians or civilizers, the...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 328 p. 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...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 328 p. 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...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 256 p. In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 256 p. In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 183 p. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the fictions....
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 183 p. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the fictions....
Michael O’Mara Books, 2024. — 388 р. — ISBN: 978-1-78929-583-2 Spend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings. Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066, the peoples we know now as the became one of the most far-ranging and influential civilizations in history. The Vikings are frequently portrayed as...
Michael O'Mara, 2024. — 270 p. Spend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings. Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066, the peoples we know now as the Vikings became one of the most far-ranging and influential civilizations in history. The Vikings are frequently portrayed as raiders, marauding across...
Greenwood Press, 2004. — 214 p. Though infamous for their violent marauding, Vikings were but one part of the complex Scandinavian culture from which they emerged. This excellent and intimate study goes beyond the rumors of the fury of the Northmen, into the prosaic realities of the greater Scandinavian community, and is ideal for readers who want to discover the everyday...
Rizzoli International Publications, 1998. — 158 p. Feared pirates, intrepid navigators, skilled craftsmen - these are the bold Vikings who erupted into history at the end of the eighth century and forged the destiny of nations. The Vikings reveals the lives of ordinary people living in these extraordinary times-- the beautiful jewelry they crafted, and charming toys for their...
University of Cambridge, 2014. — 394 p. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between political authority and economic change in the tenth to twelfth centuries AD. This is often interpreted as a period of dramatic economic and political upheaval; enormous growth in commerce, the emergence of an urban network and increasingly centralised polities are all...
University of Cambridge, 2014. — 319 p. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between political authority and economic change in the tenth to twelfth centuries AD. This is often interpreted as a period of dramatic economic and political upheaval; enormous growth in commerce, the emergence of an urban network and increasingly centralised polities are all...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 518 p. - Offers a new history of the Vikings that combines archaeology, historical sources, and novel scientific techniques - Addresses the complexity of the sources and how they can confirm, contradict, and complement each other - Fully incorporates the story of the Vikings' expansion into North America, drawing upon the author's fieldwork in...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 518 p. - Offers a new history of the Vikings that combines archaeology, historical sources, and novel scientific techniques - Addresses the complexity of the sources and how they can confirm, contradict, and complement each other - Fully incorporates the story of the Vikings' expansion into North America, drawing upon the author's fieldwork in...
М.: Вече, 2016. — 336 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4444-4527-3. Берсерки... Поистине есть некая не поддающаяся рациональному объяснению. подсознательная притягательность в этом древнем наименовании воинов-зверей, одержимых боевым безумием, насланным на них древним скандинавским богом-кудесником Одином, аналогичным богу-оборотню англосаксонского пантеона Водену и...
Калининград, 2013. — 165 с. Введение. Постановка научной проблемы влияния духовной и материальной культуры Скандинавии на традиции западных балтов в эпоху викингов. Североевропейские влияния, выявленные на материальную культуру западных балтов в IX-XI вв . Скандинавские традиции в militaria западных балтов. Снаряжение прусских коней и всадников как показатель...
СПб.: Евразия, 2006. — 269 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-8071-0190-1. Пер. с анrл. Н.В. Ерёминой. Произведение выдающеrося шведскоrо археолоrа Хольrера Арбманa посвящено истории викинrов. Цель данноrо исследования — создание панорамной картины эпохи, оказавшей огpомнoe влияние на дальнейшее развитие всей европейской цивилизации. Книгу отличают доступный стиль...
Пер. с англ. Н. В. Ерёминой. – СПб.: Евразия, 2006. – 320 с. – (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN 5-8071-0190-1
Произведение выдающегося шведского археолога Хольгера Арбмана посвящено истории викингов.
Цель данного исследования – создание панорамной картины эпохи, оказавшей огромное влияние на дальнейшее развитие всей европейской цивилизации.
Книгу отличают доступный стиль...
Пер. с англ. Н. В. Ерёминой. – СПб.: Евразия, 2006. – 320 с. – (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN 5-8071-0190-1
Произведение выдающегося шведского археолога Хольгера Арбмана посвящено истории викингов.
Цель данного исследования – создание панорамной картины эпохи, оказавшей огромное влияние на дальнейшее развитие всей европейской цивилизации.
Книгу отличают доступный стиль...
М.: Corpus, Астрель, 2012. – 912 с. – ISBN: 978-5-271-41157-1 Джесси Л.Байок - специалист по древнеисландскому языку и средневековой Скандинавии, профессор отделения скандинавистики и Котсеновского института археологии при Университете штата Калифорния в Лос-Анджелесе. Джесси Л.Байок руководит археологической экспедицией "Мшистая гора" в Исландии. Его перу принадлежат...
М.: Corpus, Астрель, 2012. – 912 с. – ISBN: 978-5-271-41157-1 Джесси Л.Байок - специалист по древнеисландскому языку и средневековой Скандинавии, профессор отделения скандинавистики и Котсеновского института археологии при Университете штата Калифорния в Лос-Анджелесе. Джесси Л.Байок руководит археологической экспедицией "Мшистая гора" в Исландии. Его перу принадлежат...
Пер. с англ., фр. и др.-исл. И. Свердлова. — М.: Астрель: Corpus, 2012. — 912 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-41157-1 (ООО «Издательство Астрель»). Джесси Л. Байок – специалист по древнеисландскому языку и средневековой Скандинавии, профессор отделения скандинавистики и Котсеновского института археологии при Университете штата Калифорния в Лос-Анджелесе. Джесси Л. Байок руководит...
Пер. с англ., фр. и др.-исл. И. Свердлова. — М.: Астрель: Corpus, 2012. — 912 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-41157-1. Джесси Л. Байок – специалист по древнеисландскому языку и средневековой Скандинавии, профессор отделения скандинавистики и Котсеновского института археологии при Университете штата Калифорния в Лос-Анджелесе. Джесси Л. Байок руководит археологической экспедицией «Мшистая...
Пер. с англ., фр. и др.-исл. И. Свердлова. — М.: Астрель: Corpus, 2012. — 912 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-41157-1. Джесси Л. Байок – специалист по древнеисландскому языку и средневековой Скандинавии, профессор отделения скандинавистики и Котсеновского института археологии при Университете штата Калифорния в Лос-Анджелесе. Джесси Л. Байок руководит археологической экспедицией «Мшистая...
Иллюстрированный альбом о викингах, изданный в Норвегии на русском языке. 2008., стр 72. Альбом куплен в английском Йорке в музее викингов. Тысячу лет назад язычники с Севера распространили страх и ужас по всей Европе. От берегов Скандинавии более двухсот лет викинги совершали морские торгово-пиратские и завоевательные экспедиции. До появления археологических находок наши...
СПб.: Евразия, 2012. — 414 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91852-139-7. Внезапно хлынув на просторы Европы в VIII веке, викинги огнем и мечом вписали свое имя в мировую историю. Казалось бы, нам все известно об этих яростных воинах и отважных мореплавателях - в любом школьном учебнике без труда можно найти все необходимые сведения: даты, основные маршруты передвижения, историю битв и...
СПб.: Евразия, 2012. — 414 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91852-139-7. Внезапно хлынув на просторы Европы в VIII веке, викинги огнем и мечом вписали свое имя в мировую историю. Казалось бы, нам все известно об этих яростных воинах и отважных мореплавателях - в любом школьном учебнике без труда можно найти все необходимые сведения: даты, основные маршруты передвижения, историю битв и...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 237 с. Слово «викинг» вероятнее всего произошло от древнескандинавского глагола «vikja», что означает «поворачивать», «покидать», «отклоняться». Таким образом, викинги – это люди, порвавшие с привычным жизненным укладом. Это изгои, покинувшие родину и отправившиеся в морской поход, чтобы добыть средства к существованию. История изгоев, покинувших родные фьорды,...
(Материали от международна конференция проведена в Софийския университет "Св. Климент Охридски" 15 - 17 май 2000 година) — София: Университетско издателство Св. Климент Охридски, 2001. — 381 с. В сборникът са представени множество статии, свързани с историята на викингите, норманите и варягите.
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 2007. — 256 с. — (Золотой фонд). Если вы интересуетесь историей Древнего мира и хотите узнать о культуре народов именно Древней Скандинавии, то эта книга для вас! Она познакомит вас с мифологией скандинавских народов, их литературным наследием, мифами и искусством рунической магии. Возможно, что, воспользовавшись рекомендациями, данными в этой книге, вы...
Харьков: Клуб семейного досуга, 2020. — 231 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-617-12-7531-7. Жестокие и неумолимые воины северных морей распространили свою экспансию от Прибалтики и Средиземного моря до Франции, Британии, Исландии и Северной Америки. На Руси их называли варягами, в Византии – варангами, в Западной Европе – норманнами. Бесстрашные берсерки и сыновья Одина –...
М.: Вече, 2022. — 351 с. — (В поисках утраченного наследия). Книга представляет сохранившиеся сведения о норманнах или наполовину норманнах в Восточной Европе в XI в. и идейно продолжает аналогичную работу, в которой собраны материалы, охватывающие IX—X вв. Читатель встретит здесь множество исторических личностей, о которых никогда ранее не слышал, а также с удивлением узнает о...
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М.: Вече, 2022. — 351 с. — (В поисках утраченного наследия). Книга представляет сохранившиеся сведения о норманнах или наполовину норманнах в Восточной Европе в XI в. и идейно продолжает аналогичную работу, в которой собраны материалы, охватывающие IX—X вв. Читатель встретит здесь множество исторических личностей, о которых никогда ранее не слышал, а также с удивлением узнает о...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 562 с. — (Всемирная история) — ISBN 978-5-9524-5389-0. Фундаментальный труд Вильгельма Грёнбека – датского историка, культуролога, профессора университета Копенгагена – это больше чем исследование древнегерманской культуры, это проникновенный рассказ о жизни и верованиях викингов – предков современных европейцев, населявших Скандинавский полуостров,...
Санкт-Петербург: МАЭ РАН, 2016. — 230 с. — (Kunstkamera Petropolitana). — ISBN: 978-5-88431-306-4. В монографии на базе уникального по полноте корпуса источников исландских родовых саг рассматривается структура древнескандинавского общества, анализируются общественные отношения, рассмотрены этноопределяющие элементы материальной культуры эпохи викингов, показана историчность...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 182 с. — (Научно-популярная серия). В книге историка А. Я. Гуревича, одного из крупнейших специалистов по культуре Западной Европы, рассказывается о викингах, чьи походы беспокоили Европу почти триста лет: с конца VII по XI век, став источником легенд о жестоких и кровожадных "северных людях". Автор, обращаясь к сообщениям западноевропейских хроник, сюжетам и...
М.: Наука, 1966. - 182 с. - (Научно-популярная серия) В книге историка А. Я. Гуревича, одного из крупнейших специалистов по культуре Западной Европы, рассказывается о викингах, чьи походы беспокоили Европу почти триста лет: с конца VII по XI век, став источником легенд о жестоких и кровожадных "северных людях". Автор, обращаясь к сообщениям западноевропейских хроник, сюжетам и...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 182 с. — (Научно-популярная серия). В книге историка А. Я. Гуревича, одного из крупнейших специалистов по культуре Западной Европы, рассказывается о викингах, чьи походы беспокоили Европу почти триста лет: с конца VII по XI век, став источником легенд о жестоких и кровожадных "северных людях". Автор, обращаясь к сообщениям западноевропейских хроник, сюжетам и...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 182 с. — (Научно-популярная серия). В книге историка А. Я. Гуревича, одного из крупнейших специалистов по культуре Западной Европы, рассказывается о викингах, чьи походы беспокоили Европу почти триста лет: с конца VII по XI век, став источником легенд о жестоких и кровожадных "северных людях". Автор, обращаясь к сообщениям западноевропейских хроник, сюжетам и...
М.: КДУ, 2005. - 208 с.
2-е изд., испр.
В книге историка А. Я. Гуревича, одного из крупнейших специалистов по культуре Западной Европы, рассказывается о викингах, чьи походы беспокоили Европу почти триста лет (с конца VII в. по XI в.) и стали источником легенд о жестоких и кровожадных «северных людях». Автор, обращаясь к сообщениям западноевропейских хроник, сюжетам и...
/ Пер. с англ. Марнициной Е. С. — СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 416 с. ISBN 5-8071-0126-Х Во второй половине XI в. окончательно оформилась цивилизация средневекового Запада. Огромное значение в процессе ее возникновения имела многогранная деятельность уроженцев одного из наиболее интересных регионов средневековой Европы — Нормандии. Потомки викингов, кельтов, франков и римлян создали...
/ Пер. с англ. Марнициной Е. С. — СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 416 с. ISBN 5-8071-0126-Х Во второй половине XI в. окончательно оформилась цивилизация средневекового Запада. Огромное значение в процессе ее возникновения имела многогранная деятельность уроженцев одного из наиболее интересных регионов средневековой Европы — Нормандии. Потомки викингов, кельтов, франков и римлян создали...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-8071-0126-Х Во второй половине XI в. окончательно оформилась цивилизация средневекового Запада. Огромное значение в процессе ее возникновения имела многогранная деятельность уроженцев одного из наиболее интересных регионов средневековой Европы - Нормандии. Потомки викингов, кельтов, франков и римлян создали на северо-западе Франкского...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 288 с. — ISBN: 5-8071-0126-Х Во второй половине XI в. окончательно оформилась цивилизация средневекового Запада. Огромное значение в процессе ее возникновения имела многогранная деятельность уроженцев одного из наиболее интересных регионов средневековой Европы - Нормандии. Потомки викингов, кельтов, франков и римлян создали на северо-западе Франкского...
Археология погребения в Скандинавии. Осеберг.
Oseberg-Dronningens. Arne Emil Christensen, Anne Stine Ingstad og Bjorn Myhre: Oseberg-dronningens grav. Chr. Schibsteds Forlag A/S, Oslo 1992
Л.: Гидрометеоиздат, 1969. - 246 с. Из древних скандинавских сказаний известно, что за пятьсот лет до Колумба в суровых арктических водах путь в Америку проложили викинги на своих ладьях. По пути викингов прошел норвежский исследователь и писатель Хельке Ингстад. Им написаны интересные книги о Канаде, Гренландии, Шпицбергене. Изучив источники, Ингстад провел раскопки в местах...
Пер. с англ. И. Ю. Ларионова. – СПб.: Евразия, 2003. – 274 с. – (Clio). ISBN 5-8071-0139-1 Книга, которую держит в руках читатель, является одним из классических выражений жанра научно-популярной литературы, посвящённой эпохе викингов. Дж. П. Каппер рассматривает Британские острова как сборный пункт, в котором пересекались и сплетались в единый клубок судьбы десятков тысяч...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. – 272 с. – ISBN: 5-8071-0139-1. Книга, которую держит в руках читатель, является одним из классических выражений жанра научно-популярной литературы, посвященной эпохе викингов. Дж. П. Каппер рассматривает Британские острова как сборный пункт, в котором пересекались и сплетались в единый клубок судьбы десятков тысяч скандинавских воинов. На земле Британии...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 272 с. — ISBN 5-8071-0139-1. Книга, которую держит в руках читатель, является одним из классических выражений жанра научно-популярной литературы, посвященной эпохе викингов. Дж. П. Каппер рассматривает Британские острова как сборный пункт, в котором пересекались и сплетались в единый клубок судьбы десятков тысяч скандинавских воинов. На земле Британии...
Пер. с англ. И. Ю. Ларионова. – СПб.: Евразия, 2003. – 274 с. – (Clio) — ISBN 5-8071-0139-1 Книга, которую держит в руках читатель, является одним из классических выражений жанра научно-популярной литературы, посвящённой эпохе викингов. Дж. П. Каппер рассматривает Британские острова как сборный пункт, в котором пересекались и сплетались в единый клубок судьбы десятков тысяч...
СПб.: Евразия. 2003. - ISBN: 5-8071-0139-1 Книга, которую держит в руках читатель, является одним из классических выражений жанра научно-популярной литературы, посвященной эпохе викингов. Дж. П. Каппер рассматривает Британские острова как сборный пункт, в котором пересекались и сплетались в единый клубок судьбы десятков тысяч скандинавских воинов. На земле Британии началась и...
СПб.: Евразия. 2003. - ISBN: 5-8071-0139-1 Книга, которую держит в руках читатель, является одним из классических выражений жанра научно-популярной литературы, посвященной эпохе викингов. Дж. П. Каппер рассматривает Британские острова как сборный пункт, в котором пересекались и сплетались в единый клубок судьбы десятков тысяч скандинавских воинов. На земле Британии началась и...
Хельсинки - Копенгаген: Партнерство по культуре Северного измерения (NDPC), 2012. — 140 с.
Основными целями проекта Путь викингов было картирование и описание объектов наследия Пути викингов – тех, что находятся в России, выявить какие из них являются наиболее важными, и проанализировать, как они развиваются сейчас, как ими предполагается управлять и предлагать для рынка...
М.: Астрель, 2003. — 176 с.
Перевод с французскоro М. Б. Ивановой.
Ив Коа, родившийся в 1953 году,— автор исторических и этнографических исследований, основатель Национального центра научных исследований в области морской антропологии, членом которого он является. Соединив вместе свою любовь ко всему касающемуся моря, и интерес к гyманитарным нayкам, он продолжает в этой книге...
М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2003. - 176 с. Эта книга посвящена одному из интереснейших периодов мировой истории, получившему название "Эпоха викингов". Автор подробно описывает как военные походы "королей морей", их завоевания, вооружение, открытие ими новых земель, так и повседневный быт, предметы обихода и образ жизни "северных людей". Отдельно автор останавливается на религиозных...
Минск: МФЦП, 2004. - 320 с. Опираясь на обширный исторический материал, автор повествует о знаменитых викингах — скандинавских воинах-мореходах (на Руси их называли варягами, а в Западной Европе — норманнами), об их торгово-грабительских и завоевательных походах в IX-XI веках в страны Европы и к берегам Америки и Африки. Издание снабжено иллюстрациями, авторскими картами,...
Минск: МФЦП, 2004. - 320 с. Опираясь на обширный исторический материал, автор повествует о знаменитых викингах — скандинавских воинах-мореходах (на Руси их называли варягами, а в Западной Европе — норманнами), об их торгово-грабительских и завоевательных походах в IX-XI веках в страны Европы и к берегам Америки и Африки. Издание снабжено иллюстрациями, авторскими картами,...
Минск: МФЦП, 2004. — 320 с. — (Народы Земли). — ISBN 985-454-218-1. Опираясь на обширный исторический материал, автор повествует о знаменитых викингах - скандинавских воинах-мореходах (на Руси их называли варягами, а в Западной Европе - норманнами), о их торгово-грабительских и завоевательных походах в IX-XI веках в страны Европы и к берегам Америки и Африки. Издание снабжено...
Пер. А.К. Толстой. — М.: Терра, 1996. — 544 с. — (Викинги). — ISBN: 5-300-00851-6. Императоры Византии высоко ценили их храбрость и силу и за это брали их в свои дружины. Плавая вдоль западного берега Франции, норманны стали проникать дальше на юг. В 844 г. викинги напали на поселения на Астурийском берегу, но были отбиты. Они разграбили много магометанских поселений, Севилью,...
Перевод А.К. Толстой. — М.: Терра, 1996. — 544 с.: ил. — (Викинги). — ISBN: 5-300-00851-6. Императоры Византии высоко ценили их храбрость и силу и за это брали их в свои дружины. Плавая вдоль западного берега Франции, норманны стали проникать дальше на юг. В 844 г. викинги напали на поселения на Астурийском берегу, но были отбиты. Они разграбили много магометанских поселений,...
Л.: Ленинградский университет, 1985. — 290 с.
Монография посвящена малоисследованной в советской исторической литературе теме - заключительному этапу перехода народов Европы от первобытнообщинного строя к классовому обществу. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности викингов в Западной Европе, показана несостоятельность норманистских построений буржуазной...
Л.: Изд. Ленинградского университета, 1985. — 290 с.
Книга посвящена малоисследованной в советской исторической литературе теме – заключительному этапу перехода народов Европы от первобытнообщинного строя к классовому обществу. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности викингов в Западной Европе, показана несостоятельность норманистстских построений буржуазной...
/ СПб. : Евразия, 2005. — 640, [8] с. : табл., карт., ил. — ISBN: 5-8071-0179-0. Монография известного российского ученого - археолога и историка - Глеба Сергеевича Лебедева "Эпоха викингов в Северной Европе и на Руси" - фундаментальное исследование культурно-исторических и социально-экономических аспектов загадочного исторического феномена. Привлекая широкий круг текстовых...
СПб.: Евразия, 2005. — 640 с. Монография известного российского ученого — археолога и историка — Глеба Сергеевича Лебедева «Эпоха викингов в Северной Европе и на Руси» — фундаментальное исследование культурно-исторических и социально-экономических аспектов загадочного исторического феномена. Привлекая широкий круг текстовых источников, археологических и этнографических материалов...
СПб. : Евразия, 2005. — 640, [8] с. : табл., карт., ил. — ISBN: 5-8071-0179-0. Монография известного российского ученого - археолога и историка - Глеба Сергеевича Лебедева "Эпоха викингов в Северной Европе и на Руси" - фундаментальное исследование культурно-исторических и социально-экономических аспектов загадочного исторического феномена. Привлекая широкий круг текстовых...
СПб. : Евразия, 2005. — 640, [8] с. : табл., карт., ил. — ISBN: 5-8071-0179-0. Монография известного российского ученого - археолога и историка - Глеба Сергеевича Лебедева "Эпоха викингов в Северной Европе и на Руси" - фундаментальное исследование культурно-исторических и социально-экономических аспектов загадочного исторического феномена. Привлекая широкий круг текстовых...
2-е изд., испр. — М.: Альма Матер, 2023. Исследование Г.С. Лебедева посвящено малоисследованной в российской исторической литературе теме – заключительному этапу перехода народов Европы от первобытнообщинного строя к классовому обществу. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности викингов в Западной Европе, показана несостоятельность норманистских построений западной...
2-е изд., испр. — М.: Альма Матер, 2023. — 891 с. — (Эпохи. Средние века. Исследования). Исследование Г.С. Лебедева посвящено малоисследованной в российской исторической литературе теме – заключительному этапу перехода народов Европы от первобытнообщинного строя к классовому обществу. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности викингов в Западной Европе, показана...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1985. — 286 с. Монография посвящена малоисследованной в советской исторической литературе теме — заключительному этапу перехода народов Европы от первобытнообщинного строя к классовому обществу. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности викингов в Западной Европе, показана несостоятельность норманистских построений...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1985. — 286 с. Монография посвящена малоисследованной в советской исторической литературе теме — заключительному этапу перехода народов Европы от первобытнообщинного строя к классовому обществу. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности викингов в Западной Европе, показана несостоятельность норманистских построений...
2-е изд., испр. — Москва: Альма Матер, 2023. — 891 с. — (Эпохи. Средние века. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-904993-98-6. Исследование Г.С. Лебедева посвящено малоисследованной в российской исторической литературе теме - заключительному этапу перехода народов Европы от первобытнообщинного строя к классовому обществу. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности викингов в...
Пер. с норвежского К. Вешнякова. — Санкт-Петербург: Альфарет, 2005. — 352 с. Впервые переведенная на русский язык монография классика норвежской археологии Яна Петерсена посвящена типологии и хронологии норвежского оружия эпохи викингов. Построения норвежского археолога легли в основу современных представлений о культурно-хронологических процессах, происходивших на территории...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2024. — 384 с. — (Страдающее Средневековье). — ISBN 978-5-00139-758-8. Около 911 года несколько кораблей викингов бросили якорь в устье Сены, и так начался великий путь, который привел норманнов к завоеванию Англии и доминированию в Западной Европе, Средиземноморье и на Ближнем Востоке. Рассказывая их историю, медиевист Леви Роуч переносит нас в волнующую...
СПб: Всемирное слово, 2001. Книга делится на две части, называемые «Скандинавия» и «Экспансия». В первой части подробно рассказывается о внешности, средствах гигиены, одежде, жилье, празднествах викингов, о структуре общества, кораблях, на которых они плавали, монетах и товарах, наконец, о религии и скальдической поэзии. Во второй части речь идет о том, почему викинги...
СПб. : Всемирное слово, 2001. - 270 с.
В высшей степени полезная, легко читаемая и высоконаучная книга для всех интересующих-ся жизнью, нравами и деяниями викингов. Автор – симпатичная датчанка, профессор Орхусского университета, Эльсе Роэсдаль написала более 20 книг о викингах, на русский язык они ранее не переводились. Издание было осуществлено благодаря поддержке датских...
СПб. : Всемирное слово, 2001. — 272 с. — ISBN 5-86442-040-9. В высшей степени полезная, легкочитаемая и высоконаучная книга для всех интересующихся жизнью, нравами и деяниями викингов. Автор – симпатичная датчанка, профессор Орхусского университета, Эльсе Роэсдаль написала более 20 книг о викингах, на русский язык они ранее не переводились. Издание было осуществлено благодаря...
СПб. : Всемирное слово, 2001. — 272 с. — ISBN: 5-86442-040-9. Эпоха викингов озарена особым отблеском романтики и приключений. На протяжении трех столетий, начиная с периода, непосредственно предшествующего IX веку и почти до самого конца XI века, скандинавы играли доминирующую роль во многих важных, полных драматизма событиях, происходивших на европейском континенте. Они...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 800 с. Эта книга — единственное в своем роде подробное описание общественной жизни легендарных викингов. Наиболее известны так называемые походы викингов — их пиратство, грабежи, географические открытия, колонизация, дружинная служба, торговля в разных странах Европы. Викинги образовали свои государства и политические анклавы в Британии,...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 800 с.
Эта книга — единственное в своем роде подробное описание общественной жизни легендарных викингов. Наиболее известны так называемые походы викингов — их пиратство, грабежи, географические открытия, колонизация, дружинная служба, торговля в разных странах Европы. Викинги образовали свои государства и политические анклавы в...
М.; Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 800 с.: ил.— ISBN: 978-5-4448-0147-5 Эта книга — единственное в своем роде подробное описание общественной жизни легендарных викингов. Наиболее известны так называемые походы викингов — их пиратство, грабежи, географические открытия, колонизация, дружинная служба, торговля в разных странах Европы. Викинги образовали свои государства и...
М.: Терра, 1996. — 600 с.
ISBN: 5-300-00523-1
Серия "Викинги" представляет литературные произведения, повествующие о славных подвигах и приключениях морских разбойников Средневековья. В серию вошли как авторские произведения, так и народные сказания и саги.
В очередной том серии Викинги вошли произведения, посвященные открытию викингами Северной Америки. В историческом романе...
М.: Терра, 1996. — 600 с.
ISBN: 5-300-00523-1
Серия "Викинги" представляет литературные произведения, повествующие о славных подвигах и приключениях морских разбойников Средневековья. В серию вошли как авторские произведения, так и народные сказания и саги.
В очередной том серии Викинги вошли произведения, посвященные открытию викингами Северной Америки. В историческом романе...
Пер. с англ. Чехонадская Н.Ю. — М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2005. – 239 с.
Жаклин Симпсон – крупнейший специалист по культуре скандинавов и англичан. Редактор всемирно известного журнала "Фольклор", автор множества популярных книг, в числе которых "Словарь английского фольклора" и "Британские драконы". Эта книга познакомит вас с викингами, искусными стратегами, мореходами и...
Пер. с англ. Чехонадская Н.Ю. — М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2005. – 239 с.
Жаклин Симпсон – крупнейший специалист по культуре скандинавов и англичан. Редактор всемирно известного журнала "Фольклор", автор множества популярных книг, в числе которых "Словарь английского фольклора" и "Британские драконы". Эта книга познакомит вас с викингами, искусными стратегами, мореходами и...
Пер. с англ. Чехонадская Н.Ю. — М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2005. – 239 с.
Жаклин Симпсон – крупнейший специалист по культуре скандинавов и англичан. Редактор всемирно известного журнала "Фольклор", автор множества популярных книг, в числе которых "Словарь английского фольклора" и "Британские драконы". Эта книга познакомит вас с викингами, искусными стратегами, мореходами и...
Пер. с англ. Чехонадская Н.Ю. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2005. — 239 с. Жаклин Симпсон – крупнейший специалист по культуре скандинавов и англичан. Редактор всемирно известного журнала "Фольклор", автор множества популярных книг, в числе которых "Словарь английского фольклора" и "Британские драконы". Эта книга познакомит вас с викингами, искусными стратегами, мореходами и...
СПб.: Евразия, 2006. — 353 с. (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-8071-0186-3. Книга известного английского историка Питера Сойера посвящена викингам, "неистовым воинам", одно упоминание о которых наводило страх на народы Западной Европы. На основе тщательного изучения многочисленных исторических источников автор раскрывает причины и следствия скандинавской экспансии с конца...
Пер. с англ. А. П. Санина. – СПб.: Евразия, 2006. – 353 с. – (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN: 5-8071-0186-3
Книга известного английского историка Питера Сойера посвящена викингам, «неистовым воинам», одно упоминание о которых наводило страх на народы Западной Европы.
На основе тщательного изучения многочисленных исторических источников автор раскрывает причины и следствия...
СПб.: Евразия, 2006. — 352 с.
Книга известного английского историка Питера Сойера посвящена викингам, "неистовым воинам", одно упоминание о которых наводило страх на народы Западной Европы. На основе тщательного изучения многочисленных исторических источников автор раскрывает причины и следствия скандинавской экспансии с конца VIII века на территорию христианской Европы.
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Пер. с англ. А. П. Санина. – СПб.: Евразия, 2006. – 353 с. – (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN: 5-8071-0186-3
Книга известного английского историка Питера Сойера посвящена викингам, «неистовым воинам», одно упоминание о которых наводило страх на народы Западной Европы.
На основе тщательного изучения многочисленных исторических источников автор раскрывает причины и следствия...
Популярная энциклопедия. Пер. с нем. А. Шемякина; Прил. и прим. К. Фриша; Предисл., коммент. А. Хлевова. – М.: ООО "Издательство ACT", 2003. – 736 с. : 8 л. ил. – (Историческая библиотека). Перед вами одна из самых известных книг, рассказывающих о походах викингов, государственном устройстве, нравах и обычаях древних скандинавов. С момента её издания она многократно...
Пер. с нем. А. Шемякина; Прил. и прим. К. Фриша; Предисл, коммент. А. Хлевова. – М.: ООО "Издательство АСТ", 2003. – 736 с. : 8 л. илл. – (Историческая библиотека)
ISBN 5-17-011581-4
Перед вами одна из самых известных книг, рассказывающая о походах викингов, государственном устройстве, нравах и обычаях древних скандинавов. С момента её издания она многократно переиздавалась и...
М.: АСТ, 2003. — 736 с. : 8 л. илл. – (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-17-011581-4. Перед вами одна из самых известных книг, рассказывающая о походах викингов, государственном устройстве, нравах и обычаях древних скандинавов. С момента её издания она многократно переиздавалась и продолжает оставаться одним из авторитетнейших исследований по истории Скандинавии эпохи...
Пер. с нем. А. Шемякина; Прил. и прим. К. Фриша; Предисл, коммент. А. Хлевова. – М.: АСТ, 2003. — 323 с. : 8 л. ил. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-17-011581-4. Перед вами одна из самых известных книг, рассказывающая о походах викингов, государственном устройстве, нравах и обычаях древних скандинавов. С момента её издания она многократно переиздавалась и продолжает...
М.: Вече, 2009. — 336 с. — (Terra Historica). — ISBN 978-5-9533-2840-1. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
М.: Вече, 2009. — 336 с. — (Terra Historica). Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги - эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча ожидает читателя в этой...
М.: Вече, 2009. — 336 с. — (Terra Historica). Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги - эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча ожидает читателя в этой...
М.: Вече, 2013. - 336 с.
Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги - эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях - вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, не известной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча ожидает читателя в этой книге!) мы открываем для...
М.: Вече, 2013. — 336 с. — (History files). — ISBN 978-5-4444-0498-0. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, не известной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
М.: Вече, 2009. — 336 с. — (Terra Historica). — ISBN 978-5-9533-2840-1. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
М.: Вече, 2018. — 320 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-0227-2. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
М.: Вече, 2018. — 320 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-0227-2. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
М.: Вече, 2018. — 320 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-0227-2. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
М.: Вече, 2018. — 320 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-0227-2. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
М.: Вече, 2018. — 320 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-0227-2. Хорошо ли мы знаем, кто такие викинги — эти великие и суровые воители Севера? Какую роль они сыграли в истории Руси? Уже написано немало книг о викингах, об их боевых походах и океанских странствиях — вплоть до Гренландии и Северной Америки. Но с каждой, неизвестной прежде сагой (а именно такая встреча...
Перевод с нем. — Л.: Судостроение, 1982. — 104 с. Рассмотрены реконструкции судов викингов, в основу которых положены результаты археологических исследований, выполненных в Скандинавии. На примере судов из Усе6ерга, Нидама, Квальзунда и других прослежено их развитие даны описания районов плавания викингов и их военных походов. Приведены чертежи и рисунки, позволяющие построить...
Перевод с нем. - Л.: Судостроение, 1982. 104 с., ил. Рассмотрены реконструкции судов викингов, в основу которых положены результаты археологических исследований, выполненных в Скандинавии. На примере судов из Усе6ерга, Нидама, Квальзунда и других прослежено их развитие даны описания районов плавания ВИКИНГОВ и их военных походов. Приведены чертежи и рисунки, позволяющие...
Перевод с нем. — Л.: Судостроение, 1982. — 104 с.: ил. Рассмотрены реконструкции судов викингов, в основу которых положены результаты археологических исследований, выполненных в Скандинавии. На примере судов из Усе6ерга, Нидама, Квальзунда и других прослежено их развитие даны описания районов плавания викингов и их военных походов. Приведены чертежи и рисунки, позволяющие...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2015. — 520 с. Цивилизация викингов – уникальное явление в истории. Не было до них европейцев, которые бы так широко раздвинули границы своего мира. Их завоевательные походы, поиски новых земель и легендарная отвага привлекают наше внимание спустя много веков. Книга Джона Хейвуда – увлекательная история древних скандинавов, а также рассказ об их мифологии,...
М.: Альпина Диджитал, 2015. — 246 с. Цивилизация викингов – уникальное явление в истории. Не было до них европейцев, которые бы так широко раздвинули границы своего мира. Их завоевательные походы, поиски новых земель и легендарная отвага привлекают наше внимание спустя много веков. Книга Джона Хейвуда – увлекательная история древних скандинавов, а также рассказ об их мифологии,...
Москва: АСТ; Астрель, 2004. 64 стр. Книга об истории завоевательных походов викингов. Большое внимание уделено вооружению и тактике боевых действий. Интересные иллюстрации.
М.: Евразия, 2002. — 242 с. — ISBN: 5807101065, 9785807101068. "Эпоха викингов стала главным потрясением для Европы в конце раннего Средневековья. Однако "внезапное" начало походов скандинавов на Запад в дейстительности не было таким уж спонтанным – ему предшествовал длительный и чрезвычайно интересный период культурной истории Северной Европы. Так называемый римский железный...
СПб.: Евразия, 2017. — 336 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91852-147-2. Эпоха викингов стала главным потрясением для Европы в конце раннего Средневековья. Однако «внезапное» начало походов скандинавов на Запад в дейстительности не было таким уж спонтанным — ему предшествовал длительный и чрезвычайно интересный период культурной истории Северной Европы. Так называемый римский железный век и...
СПб.: Евразия, 2019. — 336 с. — ISBN 978-5-8071-0449-6. Эпоха викингов стала главным потрясением для Европы в конце раннего Средневековья. Однако "внезапное" начало походов скандинавов на Запад в действительности не было таким уж спонтанным - ему предшествовал длительный и чрезвычайно интересный период культурной истории Северной Европы. Так называемый римский железный век и...
СПб.: Евразия, 2019. — 336 с. — ISBN 978-5-8071-0449-6. Эпоха викингов стала главным потрясением для Европы в конце раннего Средневековья. Однако "внезапное" начало походов скандинавов на Запад в действительности не было таким уж спонтанным - ему предшествовал длительный и чрезвычайно интересный период культурной истории Северной Европы. Так называемый римский железный век и...
Пер. с англ. А. Колина — М.: Эксмо, 2008. — 192 с.: ил. — (Военная история человечества). ISBN: 978-5-699-23504-9. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга «Викинги. Мореплаватели, пираты п воины» посвящена периоду, вошедшему в историю Европы как «эра викингов». На ее страницах представлена широкая картина истории общественного устройства, верований и быта скандинавов IX-XI веков,...
Переводчик: Александр Колин - М.: Эксмо. 2007. - 194 с. - (Военная история человечества) - ISBN: 978-5-699-23504-9 Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга посвящена периоду, вошедшему в историю Европы как эра викингов. На ее страницах представлена широкая картина истории общественного устройства, верований и быта скандинавов IX-XI веков, их военного искусства, судостроения и...
Переводчик: Александр Колин — М.: Эксмо. 2007. — 194 с. — (Военная история человечества). — ISBN: 978-5-699-23504-9
Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга "Викинги. Мореплаватели, пираты и воины" посвящена периоду, вошедшему в историю Европы как "эра викингов". На ее страницах представлена широкая картина истории общественного устройства, верований и быта скандинавов IX-XI веков,...
Монография. Омск: Изд-во Ом. гос. ун-та, 2008. - 461 с. ISBN: 978-5-7779-0939-8. Рассматривается проблема формирования образа «норманна» в западноевропейском обществе IX—XII вв. Характеризуется процесс становления и развития историографической традиции от первых упоминаний о «норманнах» в западноевропейских источниках до складывания официальной версии ранней истории...
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