The Vikings Revised Edition
, by Roesdahl, ElseNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780140252828 | 0140252827
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/1999
Far from being just "wild, barbaric, ax-wielding pirates," the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia, and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel, and far-flung colonization. This encyclopedic study brings together wide-ranging research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewelry, kingship, poetry, and family life, and, in this revised edition, recent discoveries. The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilization that flourished for three hundred years, well into the eleventh century.