The Vikings A History
by Ferguson, RobertFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-09-28
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
The Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. "The church of St. Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God," fumed the Northumbrian cleric Alcuin. Adventurers who roamed from Constantinople to the new world, conquerors of England, settlers of Russia, the medieval Scandinavians never lose their capacity to fascinate. As the Vikings roamed, their influence spread, from their ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses. Robert Ferguson combines his own expertise with the latest archaeological evidence to create a superb portrait of the Vikings, a people whose profound impact has made them a compelling subject since that first fateful raid on Lindisfarne. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Robert Ferguson is a leading authority in the field of Scandinavian studies. A resident of Norway, Ferguson has also published biographies of Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| List of Maps | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Oseberg Ship | p. 9 |
| The culture of northern Heathendom | p. 20 |
| The causes of the Viking Age | p. 41 |
| 'The devastation of all the islands of Britain by the Heathens' | p. 58 |
| The Vikings in the Carolingian empire | p. 83 |
| Across the Baltic | p. 108 |
| The Danelaw I: Occupation | p. 132 |
| The settlement of Iceland | p. 154 |
| Rollo and the Norman colony | p. 174 |
| The master-builder: Harald Bluetooth and the Jelling Stone | p. 196 |
| The Danelaw II: Assimilation | p. 216 |
| When Allah met Odin | p. 245 |
| A piece of horse's liver: The pragmatic Christianity of Håkon The Good | p. 263 |
| Greenland and North America | p. 280 |
| Ragnarök in Iceland | p. 298 |
| St Brice, St Alphege and the Wolf: The fall of Anglo-Saxon England | p. 325 |
| The Viking saint | p. 348 |
| Heathendom's last bastion | p. 364 |
| Notes | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 421 |
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