The Norse Atlantic Saga
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The Norse Atlantic Saga
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Author : Gwyn Jones
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1986
The Norse Atlantic Saga written by Gwyn Jones and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with America categories.
The Norse Atlantic Saga
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Author : Gwyn Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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The Norse Atlantic Saga
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Author : Gwyn Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
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Beyond The Northlands
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Author : Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-13
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 2016-10-13 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.
Norse In The North Atlantic
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Author : Ryan Sines
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Norse In The North Atlantic written by Ryan Sines and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with History categories.
The North Atlantic was a hostile environment, but somehow the Viking settlers on Iceland survived while the settlers on Greenland failed. Sagas, historical sources, and archaeology are combined to answer the five hundred year old question—why?
Vikings
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Author : William F. Fitzhugh
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2000-04-17
Vikings written by William F. Fitzhugh and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-17 with History categories.
Replete with color photographs, drawings, and maps of Viking sites, artifacts, and landscapes, this book celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. The book's contributors chart the spread of marauders and traders in Europe as well as the expansion of farmers and explorers throughout the North Atlantic and into the New World. They show that Norse contacts with Native American groups were more extensive than has previously been believed, but that the outnumbered Europeans never established more than temporary settlements in North America.
North American Exploration
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Author : John Logan Allen
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1997
North American Exploration written by John Logan Allen and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The three volumes that will encompass North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than an assessment of historical events, these volumes portray the process of exploration. Without forgetting the romance of exploration, the authors recognize that exploration is a great deal more than the adventures themselves. All explorers are conditioned by the time, place, and circumstances of their efforts; these determine objectives, the behavior of explorers, and the consequences of their discoveries. In this first volume we follow the expansion of knowledge from the world of the pre-Columbian explorers through the end of the sixteenth century, with each topic addressed by an expert, and all fitting into a coherent whole. The volume is enhanced by a discussion of the geographical knowledge and beliefs of the native peoples of the North American continent, and how this knowledge influenced the efforts and understanding of the Europeans.
The Boundless Sea
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Author : David Abulafia
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
The Boundless Sea written by David Abulafia and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Navigation categories.
"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"--
From The Sagas Of The Norse Kings
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Author : Snorri Sturluson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
From The Sagas Of The Norse Kings written by Snorri Sturluson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Literary Collections categories.
The Old Norse Sagas
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Author : Halvdan Koht
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
The Old Norse Sagas written by Halvdan Koht and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with categories.