Bibliograph

Vikings, raids, culture, legacy, Marjolein Stern & Roderick Dale

Type

Label

Vikings, raids, culture, legacy, Marjolein Stern & Roderick Dale

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Vikings

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Marjolein Stern & Roderick Dale

Sub title

raids, culture, legacy

Summary

The impact of the Vikings is impossible to overstate. A people apparently condemned to a marginal existence in a remote wasteland of northern Europe, they burst onto an unsuspecting continent with extraordinary consequences. Initially pirates and raiders, they laid waste to much of coastal Britain and penetrated deep into France, threatening to snuff out an emerging Christendom. They launched raids against Muslim Iberia, across the Mediterranean and into the Baltic., finally to the Atlantic reaching America. Their exploration of sea routes would not be matched until Columbus, five centuries later

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