The motivation for their movement south is sometimes attributed to the overpopulation and scant resources of their Scandinavian homelands, but Ferguson debunks this idea, advancing the case of holy war in retaliation for the slaughter of Saxons by the crusading Christians under Charlemagne. The so-called Viking Age-roughly between 793 CE, with the raid on the island of Lindisfarne, and 1066, with the Battle of Hastings-got under way when the sea-faring Norsemen began their marauding infiltrations of the British Isles and the European continent, venturing as far as Muslim Spain and Constantinople. OL18669897W Page_number_confidence 95.54 Pages 486 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200905205917 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 321 Scandate 20200903033658 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781616646226 Tts_version 4.Scandinavian studies scholar Ferguson puts the violence back in the Viking Age in his knotty, dense, intriguing look at these restless voyagers and conquerors. The Oseberg ship - The culture of northern Heathendom - The causes of the Viking Age - 'The devastation of all the islands of Britain by the Heathens' - The Vikings in the Carolingian empire - Across the Baltic - The Danelaw I: occupation - The settlement of Iceland - Rollo and the Norman colony - The master-builder: Harald Bluetooth and the Jelling Stone - The Danelaw II: assimilation - When Allah met Odin - A piece of horse's liver: the pragmatic Christianity of Håkon the Good - Greenland and North America - Ragnarök in Iceland - St Brice, St Alphege and the wolf: the fall of Anglo-Saxon England - The Viking saint - Heathendom's last bastionĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:12:37 Boxid IA1925318 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Includes bibliographical references and index Presents a history of the Nordic warriors and explorers who plundered and traded their way across Europe, and discusses how their conquests helped spread and enhance accomplishments in the arts, culture, and government Xi, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

The Vikings by Robert Fer...