Vikings in Scotland - 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 Vikings in Scotland write by James Graham-Campbell. This book was released on 1998. Vikings in Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with the archaeology of the Picts and Scots and ending with the transition to the Middle Ages, the authors place the impact of the Norse in its wider context, and thoroughly reappraise our knowledge of Scandinavian settlement in Scotland.
Viking Scotland
Viking Scotland - 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 Viking Scotland write by Anna Ritchie. This book was released on 1993. Viking Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scotland is very rich in the remains and evidence of the Vikings. Using all the sources available - historical, archaeological and linguistic - this book explores this heritage and studies, in detail, the story of the Vikings in Scotland, beginning with the situation in Scotland before they arrived and concluding with the longer term effects of Norse settlement.
The Age of the Vikings
The Age of the 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 The Age of the Vikings write by Anders Winroth. This book was released on 2014-09-07. The Age of the Vikings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacy The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.
The Vikings in Islay
The Vikings in Islay - 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 Vikings in Islay write by Alan Macniven. This book was released on 2015. The Vikings in Islay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging the traditional assumptions about the nature of Viking settlements in the Inner Hebrides, this book aims to stimulate the debate on what happened in Islay 1,200 years ago, when Viking settlers from Norway clashed with the indigenous Scots of Dal Riada. The Hebridean island of Islay is well known for its whisky, its wildlife, and its association with the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. There would seem to be little reason to dwell on its fate at the hands of the marauding Northmen during the Viking Age. Despite a pivotal location on the sea road from Norway to Ireland, there are no convincing records of the Vikings ever having been there. In recent years, historians have been keen to marginalize the island's Viking experience, choosing instead to focus on the enduring stability of native Celtic culture, and tracing the island's modern Gaelic traditions back in an unbroken chain to the dawn of the Christian era. With no written accounts to go by, the real story of Islay's Viking Age has to be read from another type of course material: the silent witness of the names and local places. The Vikings in Islay presents a detailed historical-philological survey and systematic review of approximately 240 of the island's farm and nature names. The conclusions drawn turn traditional assumptions on their head. The romance of Islay's names, it seems, masks a harrowing tale of invasion, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.
The Makers of Scotland
The Makers of Scotland - 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 Makers of Scotland write by Tim Clarkson. This book was released on 2012-09-28. The Makers of Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were tribal chiefs, Roman generals or rulers of small kingdoms. Later, after the Romans departed, the initiative was seized by dynamic warrior-kings who campaigned far beyond their own borders. Armies of Picts, Scots, Vikings, Britons and Anglo-Saxons fought each other for supremacy. From Lothian to Orkney, from Fife to the Isle of Skye, fierce battles were won and lost. By AD 1000 the political situation had changed for ever. Led by a dynasty of Gaelic-speaking kings the Picts and Scots began to forge a single, unified nation which transcended past enmities. In this book the remarkable story of how ancient North Britain became the medieval kingdom of Scotland is told.
