The Vikings /
Feared pirates, intrepid navigators, skilled craftsmen - these are the bold Vikings who erupted into history at the end of the eighth century and forged the destiny of nations. The Vikings takes you into the lives of ordinary people living in these extraordinary times and introduces you to their myt...
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Sydney ;
Lansdowne : Bookmart,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. "A fierce, wrathful, purely pagan folk"
- 2. "Iron-studded snakes" - Viking ships
- 3. Between fire and ice - the doom of the gods
- 4. Life in a Viking town
- 5. "We are all equals!"
- 6. Runes
- 7. Death and the afterlife
- 8. Viking art
- 9. Treasures of the East
- 10. "Savage and irredeemably pagan"
- 11. Before Columbus - Viking explorers
- 12. Trial by jury - what did the Vikings contribute to history?
- Further reading
- Index.