A Voyage To Viking Land
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A Voyage To Viking Land
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Author : Thomas Sedgwick Steele
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Release Date : 1896
A Voyage To Viking Land written by Thomas Sedgwick Steele and has been published by Boston : Estes and Lauriat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Norway categories.
A Voyage To Viking Land Classic Reprint
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Author : Thomas Sedgwick Steele
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-07-15
A Voyage To Viking Land Classic Reprint written by Thomas Sedgwick Steele and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Travel categories.
Excerpt from A Voyage to Viking-Land The following pages are all an introduction to one of the loveliest countries of the Old World which it has been the pleasure of the writer to visit. It is the itinerary of a most delightful voyage along the coast of Norway of a happy party of tourists, who, on pleasure bent, were blessed with an excellent steamer, fine weather, good appetites, and a capacity for enjoyment only limited by the daily supply which the circum stances offered. It was like cruising in one's own yacht, without its responsibilities and cares. The glories of the silent fjords, the wonderful glaciers, and the majestic water falls, were seen to their very best advantage, while few tourists to this region obtain such unobstructed views of the splendours of the midnight sun. With the exception of the portraits, almost all of the illustra tions are reproduced from photographs taken by the writer on the trip, the larger portion from the steamer's deck while sailing through the fjords, and along the shores. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Vikings
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Author : Gavin Chappell
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-12-23
Vikings written by Gavin Chappell and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-23 with categories.
'The lands beyond Iceland are eldritch and dreadful, and yet rich beyond belief. I myself have been in those northern waters, and I have spoken with other men, Icelanders most of them, who have sailed beyond the seas we know. Some spoke of dragons, some spoke of trolls, some spoke of stranger things. Some spoke also of the riches that are to be found in those lands...'Thorkill the Icelander comes to regret his bragging words to Gorm, Viking king of the Danes. Soon they are sailing for the dangerous lands of Jotunheim, where trolls and monsters lurk... Few will ever return. Will Thorkill? And if he does, what horrors yet await him?
Topsail And Battleaxe
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Author : Tom Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Release Date : 1998
Topsail And Battleaxe written by Tom Cunliffe and has been published by Sheridan House, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Tom Cunliffe and his wife, Ros, gathered their four-year-old daughter and a couple of friends and embark on an amazing expedition sailinh north from England to Norway, bashing their way westward from Norway to Iceland, then past Greenland to L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland in the 75 year-old pilot cutter Hirta. Their burning desire to retrace the explorations of the 10th century Vikings is told with gusto, and Cunliffe interweaves stories of Viking adventures with Hirta's progress, relating a great deal about ancient Viking history and showing that the VIking spirit still lives on in present-day Scandinavians
Beyond The Northlands
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Author : Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Beyond The Northlands written by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with History categories.
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond; north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. Beyond the Northlands explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures, and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond the horizon of reality. On the crackling brown pages of saga manuscripts, trolls, dragons, and outlandish tribes jostle for position with explorers, traders, and kings. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.
Gorm The Viking
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Author : Lisa Dahl
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2013-01-29
Gorm The Viking written by Lisa Dahl and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In the legendary land of the Vikings, even the most ordinary boy can become a hero. It isnt easy being ordinary in Danmark, especially for twelve-year-old Gorm. Growing up in a land of fearsome Vikings, where warrior kings rule and his own father is a daring explorer; Gorm would like to become known for more than a stomach that wont stop grumbling. When his dad goes missing, Gorm sets out on a quest to find him. Along the way he meets Godefred, the great Danish Sea-King, who has problems of his own. As their fates become entwined, rumors and lies threaten to rip Gorms world apart. It will take more than courage for him to see his quest through, and Gorm will need friends. Its too bad hes no longer sure who he can trust.
A Viking Voyage
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Author : W. Hodding Carter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
A Viking Voyage written by W. Hodding Carter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Sports & Recreation categories.
W. Hodding Carter admits he cannot sail a Sunfish, hates to be cold, and panics when he's lost. So why did Carter devote three years of his adult life, not to mention a small fortune, to dodging polar bears and icebergs on an open-decked wooden ship resembling an over-sized canoe? He wanted to be a Viking. Obsessed since childhood with Leif Eriksson and his triumphant voyage a thousand years ago from Greenland to North America, Carter hatched the admittedly crazy idea of reenacting Erikson's voyage in a replica of the precarious square-rigged Viking cargo ship known as a knarr. Never mind that he had a wife, twin daughters, and another baby on the way. Carter was going to make it happen. This enthralling, inspiring, occasionally hair-raising, and genuinely hilarious book is the account of how he pulled it off. With funding from Lands' End and expertise gleaned from Viking enthusiasts all over the world, Carter had the knarr constructed by an eccentric boat builder on a small Maine island. He then arranged to have the Snorri, as he dubbed the craft, shipped to the southern tip of Greenland, where he and his grab-bag crew of eleven would embark in midsummer. The departure was inauspicious, to say the least: for two solid weeks, the Snorri tacked back and forth in the windy fjord by Erik the Red's ancient farm, covering a grand total of eighty miles. Although that first attempt ended in defeat in the middle of the Davis Strait, Carter, his prudent red-haired captain, and their crew were not about to surrender. The next summer, in even worse weather, the Snorri was back on course and these latter-day Vikings were ready to handle anything Mother Nature dished out atop the icy, open sea. Well, almost anything . . . By turns thrilling and slapstick, sublime and outrageous, A Viking Voyage is an unforgettable adventure story that will take you to the heart of the most magnificent, unspoiled territory on earth, and even deeper, to the heart of a journey like no other. A celebration of the people and places Carter visits and a treasure-trove of fascinating Viking lore, this is a mesmerizing story of friendship and teamwork--and of accomplishing a goal that once seemed impossible.
The Sea Road
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Author : Olwyn Owen
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
Release Date : 1999
The Sea Road written by Olwyn Owen and has been published by Birlinn Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Initially they came as raiders and traders, but soon they built links with other civilizations and settled among them. They served as mercenaries at the court of Byzantium and discovered America five hundred years before Columbus. They established towns and a network of communications, exploited the riches of the East and explored the uncharted waters of the North Atlantic, colonizing uninhabited or sparsely populated lands on the margins of Europe. And early during this great outpouring of people from the Scandinavian homelands, the Vikings also came to England, Ireland and Scotland. The Sea Road takes the reader on a voyage through Viking Scotland. From Norway in the ninth century, the Vikings travelled to the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, and established the Orkney earldom as a powerful base from which they could make inroads into northern and north-east Scotland. Continuing the voyage around the north-west coast of Scotland, the next land-fall is the Western Isles, which the Vikings came to rule as surely as they did the north, and from where their influence was to penetrate into the westerns part of mainland Scotland. Finally, the ever pragmatic Vikings established a base in south-west Scotland and forged links with a mix of peoples in the Irish Sea area. Here the Isle of Man, a Viking kingdom, was pivotal in a cultural crossroads between Ireland, northern England and south-west Scotland. But it was in the north that their influence endured. The Viking Orkney earldom came to be an important player in the politics of the emerging nation of Scotland, and its influence was felt into medieval times and beyond. Even today, the traveler to Orkney and Shetland enters a Scandinavian Scotland. This book is part of a new series produced by Historic Scotland and Canongate which provides lively, accessible and up-to-date introductions to key themes and periods in Scottish history and prehistory.
Land Under The Pole Star
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Author : Helge Ingstad
language : en
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 1966
Land Under The Pole Star written by Helge Ingstad and has been published by New York : St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with America categories.
Norwegian explorer reconstructs all aspects of life in Norse communities founded by Eirik the Red about 1000 A.D.
Ohthere S Voyages
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Author : Janet Bately
language : en
Publisher: Viking Ship Museum/National Museum of Denmark
Release Date : 2007
Ohthere S Voyages written by Janet Bately and has been published by Viking Ship Museum/National Museum of Denmark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
At some time in the late 9th century, a Norwegian seafarer by the name of Ohthere [Oht-her-e] told the West Saxon king Alfred of his voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark. Ohthere's report made such an impression at the court of King Alfred that it was recorded and subsequently inserted into the Old English version of the late Roman world history by Orosius, accompanied by Wulfstan's account of a voyage across the Baltic Sea. Ohthere's account is the earliest known description of the North by a Scandinavian and gives a fascinating and highly trustworthy glimpse of the early Viking Age. Since the 16th century, Ohthere's voyages have been debated by an ever growing number of scholars, such as linguists, historians and archaeologists. In this book, a panel of experts presents the original source in its geographical, cultural, nautical and economic context.