A History of the VikingsFirst published in 1968. The barbarians of the distant and little-known north, of Scandinavia, that is, and of Denmark, became notorious in the ninth and tenth centuries as pests who plagued the outer fringes of the civilized This volume is an English narrative of the Vikings and their activities in the west, far north as well as east and south-east also. |
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Contents
THE VIKINGS ABROAD V RUSSIA AND THE EAST | |
THE SOUTH AND EAST BALTIC COASTS | |
THE WESTERN EMPIRE | |
ENGLAND | |
IRELAND | |
SCOTLAND AND | |
WALES | |
THE FAROE ISLANDS | |
ICELAND | |
GREENLAND | |
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adventurers Æthelred Alfred Althing army attack battle boats Bronze brother chieftains Christian Chronicle Cnut coast colony conquest Constantinople culture Danelaw Danes Danevirke Danish Danish king death defeat Denmark Dublin earl early East Baltic emperor England English Eric established expedition Faroes fighting fleet force Frankish Frisia Gaill German Goths Gotland Greek Greenland Haakon Halfdan Harald Fairhair Harald Gormsson heathen Hedeby Iceland invaders invasion Irish island Isles Ivar Jarl Jomsborg Jomsvikings Jutland Kiev king of Norway king’s kingdom land Magnus Mercia Möre ninth century Norse Norsemen northern Northmen Northumbria Norwegian numbers Olaf Olaf Tryggvason Olaf’s Olof Orkney peace pirates plundering prince province Ragnvald raid realm reign returned rule Russian sagas sailed Scandinavia Scandinavian Scotland Scottish settlement ships Sigtryg Sigurd story Sudreys Svein Svitjod Sweden Swedish territory throne took town Varangians Västergötland Vestfold viking Viking Period voyage Wales Wessex western Wineland
Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of the Vikings |
| Author | Sir Thomas D. Kendrick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1136242392, 9781136242397 |
| Length | 452 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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