| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 500 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: Viking voyages through history and archaeology -- Raiding, conquering, and settling down in Britain ; Viking ways -- From subsistence economy to political order : Viking feasts -- From Paganism to Christianization : Viking death and burial -- Political centralization in Denmark : the Viking state -- Into marginal North Atlantic environments : Viking colonization of Iceland -- Stories of Vinland : the end of the Viking horizon |
| Summary |
"The story of the Vikings is one of voyages. In the Viking Age, Scandinavian voyagers from today's Denmark, Norway, and Sweden encountered new people and novel landscapes with an unprecedented intensity. The movement of people brought transfers of ideas, sharing of technologies, trade in material goods, intermarriage, and warfare. The Viking Age (c. 790-1100) is primarily represented in popular culture as a violent age, and it was. It was also much more. Vikings were farmers, raiders, traders, and settlers. Most Viking Age Scandinavians probably would not have thought of themselves as "Vikings." The word víking did exist at the time, but it referred strictly a to sea-borne raider, essentially a pirate. It was an occupation, and could be seasonal work, a multi-year engagement, and at times a lifetime commitment. In fact, Scandinavian víking raiding parties could and did incorporate peoples from other linguistic, ethnic, and cultural groups. Nonetheless, for convenience and because of broadly understood conventions, scholars often use the term Vikings to refer broadly to Viking Age Scandinavians"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2024) |
| Subject |
Vikings.
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Vikings -- North Atlantic Region
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Old Norse literature -- History and criticism
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Antiquities
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Old Norse literature
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Vikings
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| SUBJECT |
Scandinavia -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008502
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Scandinavia -- History -- To 1397.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003008080
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North Atlantic Region
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Scandinavia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023022735 |
| ISBN |
9780197622773 |
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0197622771 |
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9780190916084 |
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0190916087 |
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9780190916077 |
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0190916079 |
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