The VikingsA recounting "of the Northmen as determined by archeologists" and a study of the world of the Norse gods and the Viking leaders: Exic Bloodax, Leif the Lucky, Olef the Stour, and Harold Handraada. |
Contents
Foreword | 6 |
Dawn of the Viking Age | 22 |
The Baltic to Byzantium | 36 |
Copyright | |
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11th century Anglo-Saxon Arab archeologists battle boat Bridge Byzantine Byzantium captured carved cathedral Chief Christian Chronicle church coast colonies Constantinople Danelaw Danes Danish Denmark Dnieper emperor England English Eric Europe excavated Faeroes Faeroese farm farmer fell Fjord fleet France Geographic Gokstad gold Greek Greenland Guiscard hand Harald Hardraada Harold Godwinson Hasteinn Hauteville Hedeby Hrolf the Ganger Iceland imperial Irish island jarls Kiev King knarr Kvívík L'Anse aux Meadows Ladby ship land longships Maniakes merchants Miklagård monastery monks Moslem MUSEUM ninth century Norman Normandy North northern Northmen Norway Norwegian Novgorod Olaf Old Norse Oseberg pagan Palermo plunder raid raiders reign river Robert Roger Roskilde saga sailed Scandinavia Scandinavian Scouts settlement Sicily skald Skraelings slaves Søvik St.-Wandrille Svein Forkbeard Swedish sword THOMAS NEBBIA Thor took town trade Varangian Guard vessels Viking Age Vinland Vitichev walls warriors William wind winter wood Yaroslav