![]() Part Four: The End of the Viking World 200 Western Europe The Celtic World The North Atlantic Russia and the East Part Three: The Vikings Overseas 122 148 164 184 ![]() Society, Kingship and Warfare Daily Life Towns, Trade and Crafts Learning and Religion Part Two: Viking Age Scandinavia 38 58 78 100 The Land, Climate and People Scandinavia before the Viking Age Part One: The Origins of the Vikings 12 22 ![]() VIKING WORLD Colleen Batey, Helen Clarke, R.I. Origination by Eray Scan, Singapore Printed in Spain by Fournier Artes Gráficas, S. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at 212/683-2244 or 800/322-8755. A British CIP catalogue is available from the British Library.įacts On File books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions or sales promotions. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data is available on request from Facts On File. For information contact: Facts On File, Inc. ![]() No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval systems, without the permission in writing from the publisher. tr picture: Detail o f a ship from a picture-stone f im \ iland: photo, Ted Spiegel.Įditor and project manager Susan Kennedy Art editor Chris Munday Design Adrian Hodgkins Picture editor Linda Proud Picture manager Jo Rapley Cartographic manager Olive Pearson Cartographic editors Sarah Phibbs, Pauline Morrow Cartographer Richard Watts Editorial assistant Marian Dreier Proof reader Lin Thomas Index Barbara James Production Clive Sparling Typesetter Brian Blackmore AN ANDROMEDA BOOK Planned and produced by Andromeda Oxford Limited 9-15 The Vineyard, Abingdon Oxfordshire, England 0X 14 3PX Copyright© 1994 by Andromeda Oxford Limited AJ1 rights reserved. The photographs reveal the range of artifacts made -and raided and traded - by the Vikings, as well as the variety of landscapes in which their lives w'ere led.ġ. Detailed maps show the Vikings’ network of sea crossings and river routes, their military campaigns, and their political and cultural development. Special features examine key aspects of Viking Age culture, such as ships, art styles, and the pagan gods, and highlight some of the most important archaeological sites. Part Three considers the Viking expansion overseas, and Part Four looks at the Viking world at the end of the Viking Age. Part Two examines the Viking Age in Scandinavia: its social organization the daily life of its farmers, craftsmen and traders its religion and literature. Part One looks at the physical background of the Scandinavian homelands and traces the history of human settlement there before the Viking Age. The Cultural Atlas o f the Viking World seeks to explain and illustrate the wide-ranging w'orld of the Vikings. During this time, Viking sailors reached westward across the Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland, colonizing the Scottish islands, the Faeroes, Iceland and Greenland on the way they raided and traded along the coasts of western Europe as far as the Mediterranean, fought repeated military campaigns in England and France and founded settlements there and around the Irish Sea and they sailed eastward along the river routes of Russia to the shores of the Black and Caspian seas, founding settlements, trading with Arabs and Bulgars, and joining the mercenary armies of the Byzantine emperor. It began in the late 8th century, when pagan pirates from Scandinavia fell upon the undefended monasteries and settlements of western Europe in search of loot and tribute, and ended in the 11th century, when the Scandinavian peoples -converted by then to Christianity - had come together to form the three nation-states of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Price The Viking Age was filled with drama. Viking World edited by James Graham-Campbell Colleen Batey, Helen Clarke, R.l.
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