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Title:

The Viking age : a reader / edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvii, 503 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Vikings--Sources.
Civilization, Viking--Sources.
Northmen--Sources.
Vikings--Sources.
Civilisation viking--Sources.
Normands--Sources.

Other Authors:

McDonald, R. Andrew (Russell Andrew), 1965-
Somerville, Angus A., 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.495-497) and indexes.

Contents:

The Scandinavian homelands -- Scandinavian society -- A glimpse of ninth-century -- Early religion and belief -- Women in the Viking age -- Viking warriors and their weapons -- Fjord-serpents: Viking ships -- Sudden and unforseeen attacks of northmen -- The heathens stayed: from raiding to settlement -- Austrveg: the Viking road to the east -- Into the western ocean, the faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland -- Viking life and death -- From Odin to Christ -- State-building at home and abroad -- The end of the Viking age.

Series:

Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures ; 14

ISBN:

1442601485 (pbk.)
9781442601482 (pbk.)
1442601477 (bound)
9781442601475 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)465566300

LCCN:

2010294212

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

VSPC034 -- Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library (Lansing)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)