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The Vikings

The Vikings Paperback - 1999

by Roesdahl, Else

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  • Title The Vikings
  • Author Roesdahl, Else
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date January 1, 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001673963
  • ISBN 9780140252828 / 0140252827
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.75 x 5.05 x 0.73 in (19.69 x 12.83 x 1.85 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Vikings, Northmen
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99178674
  • Dewey Decimal Code 948

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Summary

Far from being just "wild, barbaric, ax-wielding pirates," the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia, and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel, and far-flung colonization. This encyclopedic study brings together wide-ranging research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewelry, kingship, poetry, and family life, and, in this revised edition, recent discoveries. The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilization that flourished for three hundred years, well into the eleventh century.

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Else Roesdahl is Professor in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Århus, Denmark, and Special Professor in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham, England.

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The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure.

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About the author

Else Roesdahl is Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Arhus, Denmark and special Professor in Viking Studues at the University of Nottingham. In 1988 she was awarded the Soren Gyldendal Prize for the Danish edition of THE VIKINGS.