The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
For almost 300 years, from the 8th to the 11th centuries, the Vikings played an important and often decisive role in shaping the history of large parts of Europe. Their long ships took them from Scandinavia to conquer England, exploit the Franklin Empire, rule Normandy, trade in Russia, colonize Iceland, discover Greenland and America and much else. At the same time the three Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden started to take form. Towns were founded, far-flung trade routes were organized, art and poetry flourished and Christianity was introduced. This book covers the contributions of the many disciplines involved in modern Viking studies, giving a full survey of the Viking's achievements abroad. It also investigates the background which made it all possible and presents a picture of a strong, self-contained and fast developing society and culture. It discusses the sources of our knowledge, and those of the popular Viking myth.
Else Roesdahl is Professor Emerita in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and an honorary doctor of Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of York. She was special Professor in Viking Studues at the University of Nottingham from 1989 to 1997 and again from 2000 to 2003. She has traveled and lectured across most of the Vikings' world and has taken part in many excavations in Denmark and elsewhere. She is a Knight 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog. Roesdahl was a consultant for the 1981-1982 joint British-Danish exhbition The Vikings in England and co-editor of the catalogue, and she has also written The Viking Age of Denmark, a full accout of the Vikings in her own country. She was the Academic Coordinator of the XXIInd Council of Europe exhibition From Viking to Crusader: Scandanavia and Europe, 800-1200, shown in Paris, Berlin, and Copenhagen, for which she also edited the catalog. In 1988 she was awarded the Soren Gyldendal Prize for the Danish edition of The Vikings. She was married to an economist, has a son, and likes to sit in the garden with family and friends.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713990485 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713990481 |
| Titel | The Vikings |
| Autor | Else Roesdahl |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1991-03-28 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
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