The Viking age [electronic resource] : a reader / edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.

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"The big add to this edition is the final chapter on Viking Resurrections which is about the use and misuse of Viking history throughout various centuries. This chapter is intended to mimic the final chapter in the Crusades, second edition, which users have responded to positively. Other interesting...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures ; 14.
Other Authors: McDonald, R. Andrew (Russell Andrew), 1965- (Editor)
Somerville, Angus A., 1943- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures ; 14.
Subjects:
Vikings > Sources.
Civilization, Viking > Sources.
Northmen > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2020 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Partial Contents:
  • The Scandinavian homelands
  • Scandinavian society
  • Early religion and belief
  • Gender in the Viking Age
  • Viking warriors and their weapons
  • Fjord-serpents: Viking ships
  • "Sudden and unforeseen attacks of Northmen"
  • "The heathens stayed": from raiding to settlement
  • Austrveg: the Viking road to the East
  • Into the Western ocean: the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland
  • Vikinglife and death
  • From Odin to Christ
  • State-building at home and abroad
  • The end of the Viking age
  • Reawakening Angantýr, or Viking revivals.