Author: John R. Carling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: John R. Carling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brittany (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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Author: Valhalla
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781710809084
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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This awesome notebook is a great gift for your father or dad that loves vikings. It can be used as a notebook, journal, or composition book. On the cover cool viking skull with beard, helmet and an ax. Very useful for school or college. Write down your ideas, thoughts and notes Features College ruled 8.5" x 11" in trim size 110 pages

Author: Kirsten Wolf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440862990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, discusses what we now believe to be the truth, and provides excerpts from primary source documents. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the fictions. The book discusses 11 mistaken notions about the Vikings, with each fiction treated in its own chapter. Topics include whether the Vikings wore horned helmets, whether they were unhygienic, whether they had primitive weapons, whether they drank out of skull cups, and more. Each chapter examines how the misconception proliferated and discusses what we now believe to be the facts contradicting the fictions. Excerpts from primary source documents help readers to understand how the misconceptions came to be throughout history and provide evidence for the historical truths.

Author: Paul Hardwick
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476673748
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy. From a range of critical viewpoints, these all fresh essays explore the ways in which past and present representations of the Vikings converge in the show's richly textured dramatization of the rise and fall of Ragnar Loobrok--and the exploits of his heirs--creating what many viewers label a "true" representation of the age. From the show's sources in both saga literature and Victorian revival, to its engagement with contemporary concerns regarding gender, race and identity, via setting, sex, society and more, this first book-length study of the History Channel series appeals to fans of the show, Viking enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in medievalist representation in the 21st century.

Author: Vikings Rise
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781073642847
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Real Viking Fans show they are Fans of the Viking Culture or Born in Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Danmark Viking Norse Mythology, great for Viking Lovers who are into Gods, Odin, Vikings, Valhalla and Norse Culture a great Gift for Viking Lovers to write some Notes or a Diary

Author: John R. Carling
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265212813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Excerpt from The Viking's Skull Everything comes to the man who waits, muttered Pol to himself, as he watched the distant vehicle swaying its zigzag course down the hillside road. This dili gence is perhaps bringing me a visitor. Who can tell? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John R. Carling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780665858307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Niel Oliver
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163936126X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their own history, we have to discover it for ourselves, and that discovery, as Neil Oliver reveals, tells an extraordinary story of a people who, from the brink of destruction, reached a quarter of the way around the globe and built an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years. Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? And just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1,000 years ago? The Vikings explores many of those questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires of conquest.

Author: Andrew Wawn
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859916448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Andrew Wawn draws together a wide range of source material, including novels, poems, lectures and periodicals, to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the Viking age in 19th century Britain.