Viking Britain
An Exploration
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Word Count
102,000 words, Guess
Page Count
408 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL43017034M
- ISBN-139780008171933
- ISBN-100008171939
- OCLC Control Number1005109990
- Library of Congress Control Number2017434778
Classifications
- LCCDA158
Description
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word `Viking' brings to mind red scenes of rape and 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. 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 and Legend to show how the people we call Vikings came not just to raid and plunder, but to settle, to colonize and to rule. The book offers a vital evocation of a forgotten world, its echoes in later history and its implications for the present.
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