The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.

Product Description: The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years from the late eighth to the late eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the then-known world...read more

Product Description: The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of ‘diaspora’. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations...read more

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. Drawing on the most recent research, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? What drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery? The Vikings: A New History explores many of these questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires.

An account--based on the most recent discoveries--of the Vikings, their world, their crafts and achievements, and their everyday lives is complemented by numerous maps, photographs, and artwork

Product Description: The Vikings and Their Age offers a quick overview of the chronology and major themes of the Viking period. Written in an accessible manner, it also provides a great introduction to some of the most interesting and significant figures in Viking lore, such as Harald Bluetooth, Eirik the Red, Leif Eiriksson, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir, a female Viking traveller...read more

Product Description: An archaeologist goes beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth, in a new and groundbreaking historyAn archaeologist goes beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth, in a new and groundbreaking history...read more

Product Description: Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from their ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses...read more

Product Description: Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from their ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses...read more

Product Description: This volume aims to define the changing nature of lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia. Advances in settlement archaeology and cultural geography have revealed new aspects of social power in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive and thrilling history of the Vikings for fans of the History Channel series From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plunderers of the Viking Age ruled Norway, Sweden, and Denmark but roamed as far as Byzantium, Greenland, and America...read more

Product Description: Packed with information and photographed beautifully, this is the ultimate guide to ancient civilizations for children. From life in ancient Egypt and Greece to the Roman Empire and the world of the Vikings, this historical study also touches on antique artifacts and contemporary artworks...read more

Describes everyday life among the Vikings, covering family life, government, marriage, education, occupations, clothing, leisure, food and drink, religion, and funerals.Title: How People Lived in Viking TimesAuthor: Hynson, ColinPublisher: Rosen Pub GroupPublication Date: 2008/09/01Number of Pages: 30Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 2007040218

Product Description: After the successful edition of the book on the voyages by the Norwegian Ohthere, Ohthere's Voyages , the Viking Ship Museum now presents the lesser-known travelogue which accompanies Ohthere's report in the Old English version of Orosius' world history...read more

The story of the Vikings is one of the most dramatic in European history. This work is a survey of who the Vikings were, what they did, why they did it, and how we know about them. It includes an account of their remarkable saga literature.

Describes Viking culture, including religion, traditions, and customs, and discusses the influence and spread of Viking civilization across Europe.

Product Description: Book by Guy, John, Hall, Richard

Product Description: book to teach children about viking life

Product Description: The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. Viking raids reached from Norway to North Africa, they established the dukedom of Normandy, provided the Byzantine Emperor's bodyguard and landed on the shores of America 500 years before Columbus...read more