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
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