ASIN: B00MFVY5Q2
Publisher: Go Entertain
Pages: 49
*Includes pictures*Includes a table of contents“Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain” - Alcuin of YorkVikings epitomize terror—bloodthirsty raiders who, some thousand years ago, looted and pillaged their way across significant swaths of Europe, the sight of their approaching sails on the horizon one of the most chilling in history.This is the classic—and somewhat clichéd—image of the Vikings, and their fearsome reputation was in many respects well deserved, the Norse sagas charting their deeds in all their lurid glory. But over the past century, thanks to a wealth of new archaeological evidence, a much more nuanced picture of the Vikings has emerged, providing profound insights into one of the most astonishing, misunderstood, and adaptable of European civilizations. Vikings are now recognized not just as “wolves among sheep”: brutal warriors and pirates who seized ...
