Anglo-Saxon & Viking
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Vikings: Raiders from the Sea [Paperback]
Kim Hjardar
£7.99ISBN: 9781612005195
Published by : Casemate UK
Series: Casemate Short History
From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous sufferin... .... Learn More -
The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901: Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past [Paperback]
John D. Niles (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9781119071242
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
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The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth centuryTells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from... .... Learn More -
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £33.75
ISBN: 9781789250466
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 3
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The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. It spans the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD when the Atlantic seaboard was subject to dra... .... Learn More -
Beside the Ocean: The Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney, Archaeological Research 2003-18 [Hardback]
David Griffiths (Author); Jane Harrison (Author); Michael Athanson (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £33.75
ISBN: 9781789250961
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The Bay of Skaill, Marwick Bay, and Birsay Bay form openings in the high sandstone cliffs of Orkney’s Atlantic coast. These west-facing bays have long been favoured locations for settlement, with access to the ocean, to fresh water, to land and to... .... Learn More -
Kinship in the Viking Diaspora: Icelanders and Their Relations Across the North Atlantic [Hardback]
Pragya Vohra (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9781472473059
Published by : Routledge
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The North Atlantic Viking diaspora in the medieval period has been of increasing interest to scholars, yet is an area that remains poorly understood. Through the lens of kinship relations, this book broadens understanding of the subject by testing... .... Learn More -
Exploring Celtic Origins [Hardback]
Barry Cunliffe (Editor); John Koch (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £33.75
ISBN: 9781789250886
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background i... .... Learn More -
Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature [Hardback]
Haki Antonsson (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781843845072
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Studies in Old Norse Literature
Volume: v. 3
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The hope of salvation and the fear of damnation were fundamental in the Middle Ages. Surprisingly, however, this topic has received limited attention in the study of Old Norse literature.This book addresses this lacuna in the scholarship, from tw... .... Learn More -
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia [Hardback]
Neil Price (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £22.50
ISBN: 9781842172605
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet desp... .... Learn More -
King Arthur: The Making of the Legend [Hardback]
N. J. Higham (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780300210927
Published by : Yale University Press
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According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today decla... .... Learn More -
Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic [Hardback]
Arnved Nedkvitne (Author)
£115.00ISBN: 9780815366294
Published by : Routledge
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How could a community of 2-3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985 – 1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment met serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants met... .... Learn More
