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Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
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 metalworking, and trade.
Drawing of the latest archeological research and on literary
sources, namely the sagas, Sigurðsson depicts a complex and
surprisingly peaceful society that belies the popular image of
Norsemen as bloodthirsty barbarians. Instead, Vikings often acted
out power struggles symbolically, with local chieftains competing
with each other through displays of wealth in the form of great
feasts and gifts, rather than arms. At home, conspicuous
consumption was a Viking leader's most important virtue; the
brutality associated with them was largely wreaked abroad.
Sigurðsson's engaging history of the Vikings at home begins by
highlighting political developments in the region, detailing how
Danish kings assumed ascendency over the region and the ways in
which Viking friendship reinforced regional peace. Scandinavia
in the Age of Vikings then discusses the importance of
religion, first pagan and (beginning around 1000 A.D.)
Christianity; the central role that women played in politics and
war; and how the enormous wealth brought back to Scandinavia
affected the social fabric-shedding new light on Viking
society.
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The vikings
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 life and material culture in and beyond the Scandic homelands. Although there is a conventional Viking Age timeframe of ca. AD 800 to 1050 (the Scandinavians are usually associated with hit-and-run attacks beginning with the raid on the Abbey of Lindisfarne in 797), their military expeditions actually started earlier and were directed eastwards. Scandinavians moved beyond the Baltic coast to Constantinople. To the south and west, France, Iberia, and the islands of Great Britain and Ireland witnessed, variously, trade, invasion, and settlement. The essentially unpopulated islands of the North Atlantic Ocean were subjected to a Norse-led diaspora with the Scandinavian settlers perhaps over-reaching themselves in Newfoundland and ultimately abandoning their Greenlandic colonies. The Vikings have maintained a resonance in the popular imagination to the present day.
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Viking explorers : first European voyagers to North America
Presents information about the Viking civilization and describes their voyages across the Atlantic to become the first Europeans to set foot in the New World.
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The vikings
The prevailing image of a Viking is frequently that of a fierce male, associated with military expansion and a distinctive material culture, and the Vikings have maintained a resonance in the popular imagination to the present day. This book presents a fresh overview of the Vikings from both conceptual and material perspectives. In an engaging survey, Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide and Kevin J. Edwards analyse Viking religion, economic life, and material culture in and beyond the Scandic homelands.
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The Vikings
This book presents a fresh overview, from both Scandinavian and diasporic perspectives, on Viking society: religion, economic life, and material culture.
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