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The age of the Vikings /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The fury of the Northmen
- Violence in a violent time
- Roriks at home and away: Viking-age emigration
- Ships, boats, and ferries to the afterworld
- Coins, silk, and herring: Viking-age trade in Northern Europe
- From chieftains to kings
- At home on the farm
- Religions of the north
- Runes, arts and letters
- Epilogue: The end of the Viking age.