River Kings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook River Kings write by Cat Jarman. This book was released on 2022-02-01. River Kings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
Kings and Vikings
Kings and Vikings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kings and Vikings write by P.H. Sawyer. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Kings and Vikings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion.
The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800-1060
The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800-1060 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800-1060 write by Darren McGettigan. This book was released on 2020. The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800-1060 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an account of Viking activity in the north of Ireland, one of the less well-known episodes in the history of early medieval Ireland. It is also the story of the Cenel nEogain dynasty, an important Irish population group in the north of the island. The kings of Ailech came to prominence c.800 AD, just as the first Viking fleets began to raid the coasts of Ulster. Early Viking activity in the north of Ireland followed a similar pattern to raiding activity elsewhere on the island. It began to diverge after 866 when Aed Findliath, a high-king of Ireland from the Cenel nEogain dynasty, destroyed Scandinavian settlements in what is now Co. Antrim. It appears to have been the intention of the Cenel nEogain to allow Viking strongholds to survive further south in Ulaid territory at Strangford Lough and Carlingford, and later-on also at Ruib Mena on Lough Neagh. However, these longphuirt too were eventually destroyed by the Irish of the north of Ireland, the final ones in a spiral of violence that surrounded the death of the famous king of Aileach, Muirchertach na Cochall Craicinn (of the Leather Cloaks), who was killed by the Vikings in 943. This book also tells the stories of other note-worthy early medieval high-kings of Ireland who sprang from the Cenel nEogain dynasty. Among those discussed is Niall Glundub, killed at the battle of Dublin in 919, leading the combined armies of the Northern and Southern Ui Neill against Viking invaders known as the grandsons of Ivarr. Also included is his grandson Domnall Ua Neill, one of the first Irishmen to adopt a surname (which he took from his well-known grandfather). It was Domnall's over-ambitious plans, caused by the expulsion of the Vikings from the north of Ireland, that instead led to the collapse of the traditional Ui Neill high-kingship of Ireland in the early eleventh century.
Kings and Vikings
Kings and Vikings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kings and Vikings write by P.H. Sawyer. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Kings and Vikings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and the history of the Christian conversion.
Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings write by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson. This book was released on 2022-03-15. Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and metalworking, and trade. Drawing of the latest archeological research and on literary sources, namely the sagas, Sigurðsson depicts a complex and surprisingly peaceful society that belies the popular image of Norsemen as bloodthirsty barbarians. Instead, Vikings often acted out power struggles symbolically, with local chieftains competing with each other through displays of wealth in the form of great feasts and gifts, rather than arms. At home, conspicuous consumption was a Viking leader's most important virtue; the brutality associated with them was largely wreaked abroad. Sigurðsson's engaging history of the Vikings at home begins by highlighting political developments in the region, detailing how Danish kings assumed ascendency over the region and the ways in which Viking friendship reinforced regional peace. Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings then discusses the importance of religion, first pagan and (beginning around 1000 A.D.) Christianity; the central role that women played in politics and war; and how the enormous wealth brought back to Scandinavia affected the social fabric—shedding new light on Viking society.
