Navigation In The Viking Period
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Viking Navigation
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Author : Soren Thirslund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Viking Navigation written by Soren Thirslund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with History categories.
How was the Norse Navigator able to shape his course across the North Atlantic long before the invention of the magnetic compass? This book tells the story of the Viking Sun Compass and how it allowed the Vikings to sail across the Atlantic. In 1948, the Danish archaeologist C.L. Veb�k found the remains of a small wooden disc at the Viking Age site of Uunartoq in Greenland. Since then the Master mariners Carl V. Sver and Sen Thirslund have interpreted this find as a navigational instrument. This book is the essence of more than forty years of archaeological studies, discussions and practical sea-going experiments. The author gives a full account of the history of the find and demonstrates convincingly how Viking Age Navigators could make use of this and other simple devices in order to find their way across the vastness of the Northern Atlantic.
Navigation In The Viking Period
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Author : Niels Lund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Navigation In The Viking Period written by Niels Lund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Viking ships categories.
Viking Navigation
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Author : Søren Thirslund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Viking Navigation written by Søren Thirslund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with America categories.
Sun Navigation In The Viking Age And The Canterbury Portable Sundial
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Author : Alan Binns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Sun Navigation In The Viking Age And The Canterbury Portable Sundial written by Alan Binns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Stowing Away With The Vikings
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Author : Linda Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Release Date : 2018-10-02
Stowing Away With The Vikings written by Linda Bailey and has been published by Kids Can Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A thrilling trip back in time to the Viking Age. Binkerton twins Josh and Emma tried to stop their little sister, Libby, from opening the guidebook in the creepy Good Times Travel Agency. Instead, the book sent them hurtling back in time ã to the Viking Age! All goes fine, at first. But Viking life is not for the faint of heart. And when Josh and Libby inadvertently stow away on a Viking ship headed for a raid, it suddenly turns perilous! Can the Binkertons finish the guidebook and travel back to the present before itês too late? Kids will love this all-inclusive tour of an ancient civilization ã no travel required!
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
Land Sea And Home
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Author : John Hines
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004
Land Sea And Home written by John Hines and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The 28 papers in this volume explore the practical life, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discoveries in the Scandinavian homelands and in Britain and Ireland. With a rich combination of disciplinary perspectives, new interpretations are presented of evidence for buildings and technology, navigation, trade and military organisation, the ideology of place, and cultural interactions and comparisons between Viking and native groups. Together, these reveal the multivalent importance of settlement archaeology and history for an understanding of the pivotal phase within the Middle Ages that was the Viking period.
The Book Of Settlements
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 2007-01-15
The Book Of Settlements written by and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with History categories.
Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.
Secrets Of The Viking Navigators How The Vikings Used Their Amazing Sunstones And Other Techniques To Cross The Open Ocean
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Author : Leif K. Karlsen
language : en
Publisher: Starpath Publications
Release Date : 2018-09-13
Secrets Of The Viking Navigators How The Vikings Used Their Amazing Sunstones And Other Techniques To Cross The Open Ocean written by Leif K. Karlsen and has been published by Starpath Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-13 with History categories.
Most navigators have heard of Viking sunstones, but few realize they are more than legend. Leif Karlsen has brought them to life. He shows us how they work--now, and a thousand years ago--and what it was that led the Viking navigators to develop this unique tool for finding the direction to the sun, even when the sun is obscured by clouds or fog.
The Viking Age
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Author : George Wilton
language : en
Publisher: Az Boek
Release Date :
The Viking Age written by George Wilton and has been published by Az Boek this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Viking Age was a period of European history that spanned roughly from the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries. It was a time of significant cultural, social, and political change, marked by the expansion of Scandinavian peoples across the North Atlantic and into Europe, as well as the development of distinct Viking societies and cultures.