Scotland's story in her monuments

James Graham-Campbell

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For 300 years, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the power of the Vikings dominated Western Europe. Their voyaging extended westwards to America and as far south as the Mediterranean and North Africa. As well as being warriors and accomplished seamen, they were jewellers, sculptors and poets of great skill and originality: the forts, town sites, ships, burial mounds, carved stones, place names, sagas, art and artefacts they left behind substantiate their legendary exploits.This is a revised and updated edition of James Graham-Campbell's authoritative account of the Viking world, based on recent archaeological research, with an important chapter on ships, shipwrights and seamen from Sean McGrail. The text is complemented by a wealth of illustration, including maps and reconstruction drawings. Photographs, many of them especially commissioned, portray the brilliant products of the Vikings' culture and the beauty and harshness of the natural world they faced.

The Viking World

History

Europe

Frances Lincoln

<p>L3 Paperback. 1980 200p. 11.00x8.50x0.50. The majority of the color photographs have been taken specially for the book. VIKINGS HAD A STRONG AND VITAL CULTURE OF THEIR OWN. 80 COLOR AND 40 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS.</p>

The Vikings

Dafydd Kidd

Historical Study & Educational Resources

British Museum Publications, Ltd.

The Time Traveller Book of Viking Raiders

Anne Civardi

Stephen Cartwright (Illustrator)

Children's Books

EDC Pub.]

For 300 years, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the power of  the Vikings dominated Western Europe. Their voyaging extended westwards  to America and as far south as the Mediterranean and North Africa. As  well as being warriors and accomplished seamen, they were jewellers,  sculptors and poets of great skill and originality: the forts, town  sites, ships, burial mounds, carved stones, place names, sagas, art and  artefacts they left behind substantiate their legendary exploits.This  is a revised and updated edition of James Graham-Campbell's  authoritative account of the Viking world, based on recent  archaeological research, with an important chapter on ships, shipwrights  and seamen from Sean McGrail. The text is complemented by a wealth of  illustration, including maps and reconstruction drawings. Photographs,  many of them especially commissioned, portray the brilliant products of  the Vikings' culture and the beauty and harshness of the natural world  they faced.

The Viking World.

Frances Lincoln Publishers Limited

Das Leben der Wikinger

<p>The role of silver in Viking-age society and economy has developed into a most exciting interdisciplinary topic for research. Until recently, the use of silver in Scandinavia in the period c. 800-1100 was regularly characterized as a linear process: from the use of precious metal as a medium for social display, to a 'bullion' economy in which silver assumed functions as a medium of exchange, leading eventually to the adoption of 'proper' coinage. As new evidence has proliferated from private and professional metal-detecting, from the discovery and analysis of remarkable new hoards, and from targeted investigations of both 'central-places' and more ordinary settlement sites, this model has proved itself to be inadequate - and new ones are called for. This book has brought together an international group of archaeologists, historians and numismatists to draw a balance sheet of current research on the developing silver economies in Viking-age Scandinavia.</p>

Silver Economies, Monetisation and Society in Scandinavia, AD 800-1100

Business & Money

Economics

Aarhus University Press

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