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Vikings, life and legend, edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, Matthias Wemhoff

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Vikings

edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, Matthias Wemhoff

life and legend

In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors and sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful and fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America and Greenland in the North, the British Isles in the West as well as into the Mediterranean. This book explores the core period of the Viking age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe and the Islamic world and how they created a lasting historical impact on our world today

Contacts & exchange / Sunhild Kleingärtner and Gareth Williams -- Vikings in Arabic sources / Gareth Williams -- Wiskiauten / Timo Ibsen -- Reuse of foreign objects / Sunhild Kleingärtner --Warfare & military expansion / Gareth Williams -- The way of the warrior / Neil Price -- Continental defences against the Vikings / Simon Coupland -- Viking camps in England and Ireland / Gareth Williams -- Power & aristocracy / Anne Pedersen -- Great halls and palaces / Matthias Wemhoff -- The royal monuments of Jelling / Anne Pedersen -- Neighbours along the southern Baltic coast / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Belief & ritual / Neil Price -- The Fyrkat woman / Peter Pentz and Neil Price -- Ritual sites at Lake Tissø / Lars Jørgensen -- The Oseberg ship and ritual burial / Jan Bill -- Ships & the Vikings / Peter Pentz -- Roskilde 6 / Jan Bill -- Conservation of Roskilde 6 / Kristiane Strætkvern