یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
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The age of the Vikings, and before / Peter Sawyer -- The Frankish empire / Janet L. Nelson -- The Vikings in England, c. 790-1016 / Simon Keynes -- Ireland, Wales, man, and the Hebrides / Donnchadh Ó Corráin -- The Atlantic Islands / Sveinbjörn Rafnsson -- Scandinavians in European Russia / Thomas S. Noonan -- The Danish empire and the end of the Viking age / Niels Lund -- Ships and seamanship / Jan Bill -- Religions old and new / Preben Meulengracht Sørensen -- The Vikings in history and legend / Lars Lönnroth -- The Viking legacy / Peter Sawyer
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یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
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Were the Vikings, as an early description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or in the words of a Manx folksong, "war-wolves keen in hungry quest', who lived and died by the sea and the sword? Or were they unusually successful merchants, extortionists, and pioneer explorers? This book considers the latest research and presents an authoritative account of the Vikings and their age. Excavations as far apart as Dublin and Newfoundland, York and Russia, provide fascinating archaeological evidence, expertly interpreted in this extensively illustrated book