This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived.
Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories.
Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples.
Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.
This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the w...
This is the first English translation of a powerful work of semi-imaginary history which gave the Normans a past, present, and future at the outset of their triumphant century. Completed in or soon after 1015 by a visiting French scholar, it is a study in verse and prose of one family's rise from defeat and exile in the world of the heathen Vikings to an honoured place among the great territorial rulers of France. It recounts two campaigns in England by the founder, Rollo, and a series of stirring political, military and religious events on the Continent, most notably the dreadful murder of...
This is the first English translation of a powerful work of semi-imaginary history which gave the Normans a past, present, and future at the outset of...
