VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction Chapter 1 - The Oseberg Ship Chapter 2 - The culture of northern Heathendom Chapter 3 - The causes of the Viking Age Chapter 4 - ‘The devastation of all the islands of Britain by the Heathens’ Chapter 5 - The Vikings in the Carolingian Empire Chapter 6 - Across the Baltic Chapter 7 - The Danelaw I Chapter 8 - The settlement of Iceland Chapter 9 - Rollo and the Norman colony Chapter 10 - The master-builder Chapter 11 - The Danelaw II Chapter 12 - When Allah met Odin Chapter 13 - A piece of horse’s liver Chapter 14 - Greenland and North America Chapter 15 - Ragnarök in Iceland Chapter 16 - St Brice, St Alphege and the wolf Chapter 17 - The Viking saint Chapter 18 - Heathendom’s last bastion 2 Impeccably researched and filled with compelling accounts and analyses of legendary Viking warriors and Norse mythology, The Vikings is an indispensable guide to medieval Scandinavia and is a wonderful companion to the History Channel series. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls «the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history.» His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia with its skaldic poetry is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries to reveal a sweeping picture of the Norsemen, one of historys most amazing civilizations. 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 Viking gods and goddesses, ruled by Odin in Valhalla. 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.
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