The Viking trail through Rogaland
Author | : Per Hernæs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9788277600543 |
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Author | : Per Hernæs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9788277600543 |
Author | : Elias Bredsdorff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Scandinavia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Judith Jesch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317482549 |
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 to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations. Rather than the movements of armies, this book concentrates on the movements of people and the shared heritage and culture that connected them. This on-going contact throughout half a millennium can be traced in the laws, literatures, material culture and even environment of the various regions of the Viking diaspora. Judith Jesch considers all of these connections, and highlights in detail significant forms of cultural contact including gender, beliefs and identities. Beginning with an overview of Vikings and the Viking Age, the nature of the evidence available, and a full exploration of the concept of ‘diaspora’, the book then provides a detailed demonstration of the appropriateness of the term to the world peopled by Scandinavians. This book is the first to explain Scandinavian expansion using this model, and presents the Viking Age in a new and exciting way for students of Vikings and medieval history.
Author | : Torgrim Titlestad |
Publisher | : Saga Bok |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2018-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8291640947 |
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 Legacy represents a new generation of books exploring the Viking Age. By integrating the Saga literature with other sources, a more complete picture emerges of this increasingly popular era, and a civilization that would change the course of history. Torgrim Titlestad, professor, dr.philos. is one of Norway’s foremost experts and most prolific authors on the Viking Age and Saga history. He is the recipient of the Saga Award (2016) and was appointed Knight of the Order of the Falcon (2017) by Iceland’s President, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, for his work with the Norse sagas, especially Tormod Torfæus’ Magnum Opus Historia Rerum Norvegicarum and the Icelandic saga treasure Flateyjarbók.
Author | : Marianne Hem Eriksen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1108757022 |
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 also serve as potent ritual objects. For this study, Eriksen analyzes and interprets the archaeological data of house remains from Viking Age Norway, which are here synthesized for the first time. Using social approaches to architecture, she demonstrates how the domestic space of the Viking household, which could include masters and slaves, wives and mistresses, children and cattle, was not neutral. Quotidian and ritual interactions with, through, and orchestrated by doorways prove to be central to the production of a social world in the Viking Age. Eriksen's book challenges the male-dominated focus of research on the Vikings and expands research questions beyond topics of seaborne warriors, trade, and craft.
Author | : Robert Ferguson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2009-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101151420 |
A comprehensive and thrilling history of the Vikings for fans of the History Channel series 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 ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of Viking gods and goddesses, ruled by Odin in Valhalla. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls "the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history." His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia with its skaldic poetry is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries to reveal a sweeping picture of the Norsemen, one of history's most amazing civilizations. Impeccably researched and filled with compelling accounts and analyses of legendary Viking warriors and Norse mythology, The Vikings is an indispensable guide to medieval Scandinavia and is a wonderful companion to the History Channel series.
Author | : Gwyn Jones |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Civilization, Viking |
ISBN | : 9780192801340 |
A look at the ancient Scandinavian peoples.
Author | : Stefan Brink |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 2008-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113431826X |
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, and the most comprehensive book of its kind ever attempted.
Author | : H.R. Ellis Davidson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2023-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000921239 |
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 Black Sea, among the carved stones of ancient Thrace and in Constantinople itself, the Miklagard of northern literature.