On a day in August, one thousand years ago, a fleet of ninety viking ships sailed into the estuary of the Blackwater river, Essex. Fresh from the ravage of Ipswich, under the command of the king of Denmark, they were intent no doubt on the rich spoils to be had from the royal Mint of Maldon. This is a history of the battle of Maldon.

Set against a backdrop of eleventh-century England, a land beset by Viking raiders and caught in the middle of a power struggle among Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, a biography of Emma, one of England's most colorful queens, captures the turbulent world of a woman who married two different kings and gave birth to two more. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: An engaging biography of the 11th-century English queen who married two English kings and gave birth to two more.In 1002, a beautiful 18-year-old named Emma, the half-Danish sister of the Duke of Normandy and a descendant of Vikings, sailed to England to be the queen of Ethelred the Unready, who needed a Norman alliance against Viking raiders...read more

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Beginning with the events of the Battle of Maldon, a survey of England and its people in the years before the Norman conquest outlines the Anglo-Saxon world view and the influence and contributions of the Vikings

Product Description: The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest. The essays fall into three groups of concern: history, myth, and the language of poetry...read more