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Northmen - The Viking Saga 793-1241 (Paperback, Reissue)
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Northmen - The Viking Saga 793-1241 (Paperback, Reissue)
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Loot Price R289
Discovery Miles 2 890
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'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes,
and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their
movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of
Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of
medieval Europe. From their chill northern fastness, Norse
warriors, explorers and merchants raided, traded, and settled
across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic from the
late 8th to the mid-11th century. Northmen narrates their story
focusing on places where key events were played out, from the sack
of Lindisfarne in 793 to the murder in Iceland in 1241 of the
saga-writer Snorri Sturluson. Such episodes are fascinating in
themselves, but also shed crucial light on the nature of Viking
activity - its causes, effects, and the reasons for its decline. In
800 the Scandinavians were barbarians in longships bent on plunder
and rapine; by 1200, their homelands were an integral part of Latin
Christendom. John Haywood tells, in authoritative but compellingly
readable fashion, the extraordinary story of the Viking Age.
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