Hardcover reprint of the original 1890 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience.
For a relatively brief period in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, loose “Viking empires” emerged in the North Sea and Irish Sea. Most notably, King Knut the Great (d. 1035), a grandson of Harald Bluetooth, ruled England, Denmark, ...
The present volume is concerned with that period in the history of the Scandinavian peoples when they were growing, but had not yet fully grown, into nationalities, and when, therefore, their true national history had not begun.
He himself is a ghoul or a giant, a giant just of the same kind as the giant of our folk-tales; only that unfortunately we cannot realize what ... He bare 'God's anger on him,' so writes our poet, a Christian telling a heathen legend.
This book comprises papers by Irish and overseas scholars on aspects of the Viking Age relating to Ireland and the western Viking world.
Who were the Vikings, and do they deserve their unsavoury reputation? Through over 100 primary source documents, this fascinating collection weighs the cultural importance and lasting influence of the Vikings.
The reader can be paired for classroom use with its companion volume, The Vikings and Their Age, authored by Somerville and McDonald. Together, these books provide comprehensive coverage for a course on the Vikings.
... Skärvor från en Husgrund. Enfallstudie om Västergarnskeramiken från 2010 års fältundersökning. Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet, DIVA: Unpublished. Peets, J., Allmäe, R. and Maldre, L. 2010. Archaeological Investigations of pre-Viking Age ...