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Ships And Men In The Late Viking Age

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Author : Judith Jesch
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2001

Ships And Men In The Late Viking Age written by Judith Jesch and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Rocks and Rhymes ' -- The Karlevi stone -- Runic inscriptions, skaldic verse and the late Viking Age -- Literacy and orality -- The runic corpus -- The skaldic corpus -- Verse in prose contexts -- Reconstructing viking verse -- The manuscript transmission -- Viking verse as a historical source -- Semantic study of skaldic verse and runic inscriptions -- Skaldic vocabulary in context -- Runes and semantics -- Comparative angles -- Sources and conventions -- Ships and men in the late Viking Age -- 2 Viking Activities -- Vikings -- vikingr -- viking -- Death and war -- 'He died' -- Battles and raids -- The fall of warriors -- Trade -- Pilgrimage -- 3 Viking Destinations -- 'East' and 'west' -- The western route -- 'West' -- England -- Britain and Ireland -- Further west -- The European continent and further south -- Saxony and Frisia -- Brittany and points south -- Normandy and southern Italy -- Africa -- The eastern route -- 'rast' -- The Baltic area -- Russia -- Byzantium and Jerusalem -- Ingvarr's expedition -- Serkland -- Scandinavia -- Hedeby -- Denmark to Sweden -- Two more towns -- 4 Ships and Sailing -- Words for 'ship' -- skip -- skeid -- snekkja -- dreki -- knQrr -- Oak and pine -- Miscellaneous words -- Summary -- Names of ships -- The ship and its parts -- The hull -- The stems -- Inside the hull -- Rudders, oars and shields -- Masts, sails and rigging -- In harbour and on land -- The vocabulary of sailing -- Description and metaphor -- Preparing and launching -- The ship in the sea -- Shipwreck and landing -- 5 The Crew, the Fleet and Battles at Sea -- Manning a ship -- The owner -- The captain -- The crew -- The fleet and the troop -- lid -- Compounds with -lid -- fioti -- leidangr -- The troop -- Units of the fleet -- Summary -- Battles at sea -- Maritime warfare -- Place and time -- Preliminaries to battle -- Bringing the ships together -- Attack and defence -- Victory and booty -- Not like leeks and ale -- 6 Group and Ethos in War and Trade -- The group and its vocabulary -- drengr -- fdlagi -- heimpegi -- huskarl -- gildi -- The ideology of battle -- 'He fled not' -- 'He fed eagles, ravens and wolves' -- The symbolism of battle: ravens and banners -- Murder and betrayal -- Kinds of killing -- Treachery -- Loyalty -- Treachery and politics -- 7 Epilogue: Kings and Ships -- From vikings to kings -- Royal and other ships in the eleventh century -- After the Viking Age -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Appendix I: The runic corpus -- Appendix II: The skaldic corpus -- Index of words and names -- General index

The Vikings Who Were The Vikings Enter The Viking Age Discover The Facts Sagas Norse Mythology Legends Battles More

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Author : History Brought Alive
language : en
Publisher: History Brought Alive
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The Vikings Who Were The Vikings Enter The Viking Age Discover The Facts Sagas Norse Mythology Legends Battles More written by History Brought Alive and has been published by History Brought Alive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.

In 700 AD, a tribe of warriors left their homeland and struck out for glory & conquest.., They came to take no prisoners. Their eerie horns made a distinctive sound, and their fearsome longboats struck from out of nowhere.. The Vikings, their History & Mythology fascinates many because it speaks to something within us: The fight to succeed and to grow stronger. Make no mistake, these were not nice people, but much of their legacy was not just about pillaging and destruction. In this book, History Brought Alive reveals new insights into The Vikings. Join us on a rampage through their history, culture, myths and more! Blending historical accounts, tales and mythology. This is the definitive guide to the life and times of the Vikings. See into the lives of these legendary people, the impact that they had on medieval society and beyond. In this book you will discover; Common Misunderstandings About The Vikings The Viking Diet - Discover The Energy Source Of The Epic Warriors Runestones - Meanings & Opening a Gateway to Ancient Viking Civilization Famous Battles including The Legendary Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 Language of The Vikings - Old Norse Language Throughout History Viking Longships - How The Norsemen Ruled the Waves Traditions, Culture & Rituals - Births, Weddings & The Complex Way The Viking’s Responded to Death Viking Gods & Goddesses - Loki The Trickster, Thor God of Thunder & More What Happened to The Vikings & Why did They Disappear? And much, much more.. The Viking era may have ended, but their legacy lives on. And if you want to find out more about The Vikings then this isThe Book for You

The Viking Age

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Author : Charles Keary
language : en
Publisher: Ozymandias Press
Release Date : 2018-04-20

The Viking Age written by Charles Keary and has been published by Ozymandias Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-20 with History categories.

The present volume is concerned with that period in the history of the Scandinavian peoples when they were growing, but had not yet fully grown, into nationalities, and when, therefore, their true national history had not begun. Every historic people has passed through this early formative period, its age of Sturm und Drang; and it may be said that every nationality which is worthy of the name has looked back upon that age with a peculiar affection and with a sort of reverence. It has, in consequence, overlaid the faint traditions of it with a garment of mythology, out of which it is in most cases possible only here and there to separate a shred of historical truth. The result is that the very phase in the development of the people about which we most long to know, is the one about which we are condemned to the completest ignorance. The Viking Age of the Northern Folk differs from the corresponding epochs in the history of other nations in this - that it is illuminated by a faint ray of real history lent from the pages of contemporary but alien chroniclers, the chroniclers, I mean, of Christian Europe. Were it not for this faint gleam, the earliest age of the Vikings would have remained for us as a mere tradition, something known to have been, but not presentable in any realizable form; much, in fact, what the Dorian Migration is in the history of Greece. As it is, by the aid of the contemporary records I have spoken of, we can present the northern migration in a clearer guise.

The Viking Age In Denmark

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Author : Klavs Randsborg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 1980

The Viking Age In Denmark written by Klavs Randsborg and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.

Women In The Viking Age

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Author : Judith Jesch
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1991

Women In The Viking Age written by Judith Jesch and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women. Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores an unfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world. JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham.

The Viking Age

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Author : Angus A. Somerville
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2014-09-22

The Viking Age written by Angus A. Somerville and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-22 with History categories.

In assembling, translating, and arranging over a hundred primary source readings, Somerville and McDonald successfully illuminate the Vikings and their world for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking Age is brought to life through the range of sources presented, and the geographical and chronological coverage of these readings. The Norse translations, many of them new to this collection, are straightforward and easily accessible, and the chapter introductions contextualize the readings while allowing the sources to speak for themselves. The second edition of this popular reader has been revised and reorganized into fourteen chapters. Nearly twenty sources have been added, including material on children, games and entertainment, and runic inscriptions, as well as new readings on the martyrdom of Alfeah, the life of Saint Findan, and the martyrdom of Saint Edmund. The reader can be paired for classroom use with its companion volume, The Vikings and Their Age, authored by Somerville and McDonald. Together, these books provide comprehensive coverage for a course on the Vikings. Additional resources, such as a detailed bibliography and instructions on reading skaldic poetry, can be found on the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com).

The Viking Age

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Author : Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

The Viking Age written by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Civilization, Scandinavian categories.

The Viking Age

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Author : Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

The Viking Age written by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Northmen categories.

Vikings Across Boundaries

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Author : Hanne Lovise Aannestad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-26

Vikings Across Boundaries written by Hanne Lovise Aannestad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Social Science categories.

This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks. Presenting research on the grand context of the Viking Age alongside localised studies, it contributes to the furthering of collaborations between local and ‘outsider’ research on the Viking Age. Through a diversity of approaches on the Viking homelands and the wider world of the Vikings, it offers studies of a range of phenomena, including urban and rural settlements; continuity in the use of places as well as new types of places specific to the Viking Age; the social significance of change; the construction and maintenance of social identity both within the ‘homelands’ and across large territories; ethnicity; and ideas of identity and the creation and recreation of identity both at home and abroad. As such, it will appeal to historians and archaeologists with interests in Viking-Age studies, as well as scholars of Scandinavian studies.

The Viking Age

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Author : Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

The Viking Age written by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Civilization, Scandinavian categories.