During the Viking Age, York was the most important centre of Scandinavian power & influence in Britain. This book outlines the history of this exciting period & traces the impact which the Viking settlers made. Recent excavation campaigns in the area have shed new light on the life-style of York's Viking age citizens. From the well-preserved remains of their houses & workshops, York Archaeological Trust has put together details of the environment, climate, diet, crafts & trades of the period. Details are also given of costume, arts & fashion, & the beliefs of some of the citizens are examined through their burial rituals. ...

Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defense forces, no king, no lords, no peasants & few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality & killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures & cultural codes of the islands` social order. ” Viking Age Iceland” is an engaging, multi-disciplinary work bringing together findings in anthropology & ethnography interwoven with historical fact & masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas, this is a brilliant reconstruction of the inner workings of a unique & intriguing society. ...

A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains & landscapes that the Vikings fashioned & walked: their rune-stones & ship burials, settlements & battlefields. To many, the word ` Viking` brings to mind red scenes of rape & pillage, of marauders from beyond the sea rampaging around the British coastline in the last gloomy centuries before the Norman Conquest. It is true that Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent, violent place. The kings & warlords who have impressed their memories on the period revel in names that fire the blood & stir the imagination: Svein Forkbeard & Edmund Ironside, Ivar the Boneless & Alfred the Great, Erik Bloodaxe & Edgar the Pacifier amongst many others. Evidence for their brutality, their dominance, their avarice & their pride is still unearthed from British soil with stunning regularity. But this is not the whole story. In Viking Britain, Thomas Williams has drawn on his experience as project curator of the British Museum exhibition of Vikings: Life & Legend to show how the people we call Vikings came not just to raid & plunder, but to settle, to colonize & to rule. The impact on these islands was profound & enduring, shaping British social, cultural & political development for hundreds of years. Indeed, in language, literature, place-names & folklore, the presence of Scandinavian settlers can still be felt, & their memory
- filtered & refashioned through the writings of people like J.R.R. Tolkien, William Morris & G.K. Chesterton
- has transformed the western imagination. This remarkable makes use of new academic research & first-hand experience, drawing deeply from the relics & landscapes that the Vikings & their contemporaries fashioned & walked: their runestones & ship burials, settlements & battlefields, poems & chronicles. The book offers a vital evocation of a forgotten world, its echoes in later history & its implications for the present.

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Step inside a Viking town & discover for yourself what it was like to live & work in this bustling centre of long-distance trade. Admire the well-built houses before joining the town`s defenders as they fight off an attack by rivals from across the sea. This is a superbly-illustrated look at the daily lives of different types of Vikings. Astounding architectural acheivements are explained & explored with full-colour cutaway illustrations. Pinpoint enlargements focus on the day to day lives of the people, looking at how they ate, dressed, entertained themselves & sometimes fought. Illustrations of artifacts & paintings from the era help to support the main text by providing proof which explains how we know what we know. Informative captions, maps, a complete glossary & an index make these titles ideal educational texts. Each one features a sturdy flexi-bound cover with gold foiling. ...

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, & prided themselves on their bloody-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west & as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their history, we have to discover it for ourselves, & that discovery, as Neil Oliver reveals, tells an extraordinary story of a people who, from the brink of destruction, reached a quarter of the way around the globe & built an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years. Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? & just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1000 years ago? VIKINGS will explore many of these questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires of conquest. ...

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, & prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west & as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their history, we have to discover it for ourselves, & that discovery, as Neil Oliver reveals, tells an extraordinary story of a people who, from the brink of destruction, reached a quarter of the way around the globe & built an empire that lasted nearly 200 years. Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? & just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1000 years ago? VIKINGS will explore many of these questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world`s great empires of conquest. ...

With fast facts, mini missions, & engaging artwork, Vikings in 30 Seconds is an introduction to one of the world`s most fascinating cultures. Children will discover all about these amazing warriors, including where they came from, their incredible skill as boat builders & seafarers & how they traded with & settled in other lands. Each topic is presented in a concise 30-second summary, supported by a 3-second flash soundbite & full-colour artwork. Fun, active elements for kids to make-&-do support the topics, encouraging them to test, explore, & discover more. ...

In the ninth & tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors & sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful & fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America & Greenland in the North, the British Isles in the West as well as into the Mediterranean. Throughout their existence, the Vikings encountered a remarkable diversity of peoples & inhabited an expansive & changing world. This beautifully illustrated book explores the core period of the Viking Age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe & the Islamic World & how they created a lasting historical impact on our world today. Highlighting an extraordinary range of objects & featuring new discoveries by archaeologists & metal-detector users, the cultural connections between Europe, Byzantium & the Middle East are explored in absorbing detail. Vikings: life & legend is published to complement a major exhibition developed jointly by the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen & the Museum for Prehistory & Early History, Berlin. ...

Map No. 10106, Vikna, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...