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Children of Ash and Elm - A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
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Children of Ash and Elm - A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
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The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to
politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with
decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an
unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider
world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged
from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries,
the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to
suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights,
Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these
appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and
sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological
and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of
the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and
religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of
maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies,
beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples
they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From
Eirik Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid
Thorbjarnardottir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children
of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their
time.
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