Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas

ISBN-13: 9780198701293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 344 str.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

Opis

A trip to the furthest edgelands of the Viking world via the drama of the Old Norse sagas - from the Arctic Circle to Constantinople, North America to Kievan Rus.

Recenzje

A vibrant account that evokes the spirit of the Viking age in a thoroughly entertaining, yet historically sound, fashion. Philip Parker, BBC World Histories

O autorze

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is Assistant Professor in Medieval History and Literature at Durham University. In 2013, she was chosen as one of ten BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers, in a competition to find young academics with the potential to turn their research into programmes for broadcast. Eleanor's research often takes her to the chilly Nordic climes of Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland. Whilst researching this book, Eleanor had many far-flung adventures of her own: bumping along on the back of an Icelandic horse whilst exploring Norse ruins in Greenland, sailing ice fjords under the midnight sun with a caribou hunter, and searching for Norse rune-stones in Sweden. Her proudest moment came when travelling across Arctic Norway, where she was knighted with a walrus penis bone in Hammerfest and became a member of the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society.