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Want to Learn More About The Vikings? Do You Want an In-Depth Book tAbout The History of the Norsemen? This Book by Maven Gauss is For You As The Author Explores The Origin, Culture, and Civilization of the Vikings in Its True Historical Account. Never Before on Audiobook Has The Vikings Been Explored to This Depth. Learn About The Norsemen Today & Learn More About The Historical & Cultural Significance That The Vikings Bring To Our Modern Imagination....
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Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Minnesota Vikings documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertainingand unsparingfashion, this book sparkles with Vikings highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and...
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The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty 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 and as far as Baghdad in the East. As the Vikings did not write their own history, we have to discover it for ourselves, and that discovery, as Neil Oliver reveals, tells an extraordinary...
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In AD 793, Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse "sea wolves" followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev, and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital...
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In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power meant little more than the ability to pillage and plunder, which they did to bolster their status at home. But as these Norse warriors left their strongholds to trade, raid, and settle across wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic, their violent and predatory culture left a unique imprint on medieval history. The twist that no...
14) Viking warriors
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Conquerors and combatants volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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In Viking Warriors, the Norse invaders come to life. Students will read about raids, battles, and key fighters and leaders. Illustrations, engravings and relics depict the Norse culture, marine and combat technology, and fighting styles that gave them the advantage in battle. Maps and diagrams demonstrate their ambitious expansion and conquest of cities and people throughout the northern hemisphere.
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In the Ninth century, a group of Vikings, is approaching Britain, aiming to plunder the rich monasteries in the north of the island. But their ship gets caught in a storm and is smashed to pieces on the rocks off the coast of Scotland, the only part of Britain without any Viking settlements. When the daughter of the Scottish King by chance falls into Viking hands, they see the opportunity for demanding a large ransom.
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2021.
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First edition.
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English
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"In the tradition of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors. In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history, and literature to imagine her life and times, showing that Viking...
18) The Vikings
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[2005]
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English
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As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
19) Barbarians
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[2003]
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English
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Explore the origins of the Huns, Goths, Vikings, and Mongols. Shot on location featuring interviews, reenactments and narrated by Clancy Brown, this brings to life the powerful leaders, and drive that kept empires in terror for centuries.
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Ático Historia volume 49
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Primera edición: marzo de 2022
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Español
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"El épico relato de las aventuras orientales de los vikingos. La época vikinga empieza con el saqueo del monasterio de Lindisfarne en el 793. A partir de ese momento, los vikingos asolan costas y ríos de Europa, desde Escandinavia hasta la propia península ibérica. Sin embargo, en 2017, una gema hallada en un yacimiento arqueológico cambió para siempre la historia de los vikingos. Se trataba de una cornalina procedente de la India. ¿Era posible...
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