ISBN  9788418217173

VIKINGOS


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The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders explorers and colonists they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights Victorian imperialists Nazis and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics their cosmology and religion their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence the Vikings exported new ideas technologies beliefs and practices to the lands they discovered and the people they encountered and in the process were changed themselves. From Eirík Bloodaxe who fought his way to a kingdom to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir the most traveled in the world Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.


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