Beyond the northlands : viking voyages and the old Norse sagas
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Bok Engelsk 2016
| Omfang | xix, 317 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.. - fascinating voyage to the furthest edgelands of the Viking world via the drama of the Old Norse sagas - from the bleak landscapes of the Arctic Circle to medieval Constantinople, pre-Columbus north America to Kievan Rus. Places the rich confusion and fantasy of the sagas in the illuminating context of an array of other evidence, from rune-stones and ruins to texts from Byzantium and Baghdad. Includes vivid descriptions of the actual landscapes discovered, explored and inhabited by the Norsemen. - Enables readers to understand the Norsemen like never before, as if they were travelling with them on their adventures to far-flung corners of the world
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| Emner | Civilization, Viking : (DLC) sh 98007564
Sagas - History and criticism : (DLC) sh2008111140 Vikings : (DLC) sh 85143340 Oppdagelsesreiser : HUME11328 Vis mer... Vikinger : HUME07387
Vikingtiden : HUME10917 oppdagingsreiser oppdagelsesreiser handelsreiser vikingferder vikingtokt sagalitteratur vikingtid 700-1100 Norden Nordsjøen Nord-Atlanteren Grønland Vinland Bjarmeland Gardarike Miklagard Nord-Amerika Bysants Russland |
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| ISBN | 9780198701248
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