This book presents a fresh overview of the Vikings from both
conceptual and material perspectives. The prevailing image of a
Viking is frequently that of a fierce male, associated with
military expansion and a distinctive material culture. In an
engaging survey, Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide and Kevin J. Edwards
analyse Viking religion, economic life and material culture in and
beyond the Scandic homelands. Although there is a conventional
Viking Age timeframe of ca. AD 800 to 1050 (the Scandinavians are
usually associated with hit-and-run attacks beginning with the raid
on the Abbey of Lindisfarne in 797), their military expeditions
actually started earlier and were directed eastwards. Scandinavians
moved beyond the Baltic coast to Constantinople. To the south and
west, France, Iberia, and the islands of Great Britain and Ireland
witnessed, variously, trade, invasion, and settlement. The
essentially unpopulated islands of the North Atlantic Ocean were
subjected to a Norse-led diaspora with the Scandinavian settlers
perhaps over-reaching themselves in Newfoundland and ultimately
abandoning their Greenlandic colonies. The Vikings have maintained
a resonance in the popular imagination to the present day.
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