Download or read book Children of Ash and Elm written by Neil Price and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
Download or read book The Thrall written by Sarah Myers and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 999 A.D., a young and naïve Rowan is taken from her family and farm in Kent by the striking and determined Viking warrior Dreki. Across oceans and foreign lands, the two bond in their time together as captor and thrall. Upon arrival in Dreki's Norse village, Rowan is gifted to the Earl and thrown into a life of slavery. Dreki, struggling with the complicated relationship with his Earl, finds himself unable to stay away from the girl who captured his heart.A story of love and duty, of mysticism and mythology, in a time when barbarians clashed with Christians, The Thrall is book one in the saga you have been waiting for.To fill the void left by historical romances such as Outlander and The Bronze Horseman, dive into a long ago age and follow Rowan as she discovers unforeseen gifts within herself on her journey to becoming a Viking.
Download or read book Thraldom written by Stefan Brink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of my research was turned into a book published in Swedish in 2012. This present book is a revised translation and extensively extended version of that book.
Download or read book People of the Dawn written by Jan Fridegard and published by Viking Slave Trilogy. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweden ́s great saga of the Viking Age, The Viking Slave Trilogy, is steeped in Norse myth and pagan ritual recounting the sensual but often cruel demands of the gods Odin, Thor, and Frey.
Download or read book Viking Heat written by Sandra Hill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist Joy Nelson thinks things are bad when she finds herself training in the modern-day female Navy SEALs program. But then her life takes a turn for the worse. Somehow she’s been thrust back in time to the cold Norselands, being auctioned off as a thrall, or slave—a gift for a Viking warlord, who would be a perfect candidate for Male Chauvinist Viking of the Centuries. Watch a Video
Download or read book They Came On Viking Ships written by Jackie French and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can enemy warriors become your friends? A story of adventure in a new land When Vikings raid and destroy a small coastal village, Hekja and her dog, Snarf, are captured and taken to Greenland. In this harsh and cold land, Hekja becomes a thrall - a slave - to Freydis Eriksdottir, daughter of the infamous Erik the Red. Hekja's fiery determination earns her the respect of her mistress. But Hekja's journey was just the beginning, as she and Snarf and other colonists join their leader, Freydis, on a voyage to Vinland to establish a new settlement where more perilous adventures await them... AWARDS Shortlisted - Young People's History Prize, NSW Premier's History Awards (2006)
Download or read book Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia written by Ruth Mazo Karras and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first work in English to examine the institutuion of slavery in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland from the Viking Age to its end in the fourteenth century. Drawing on a wide variety of cources-- law codes, will, charters, sagas, chronicles, and archaeological data-- Ruth Mazo Karras discusses the social, legal, and economic aspects of slavery in Scandinavia, comparing them with conditions of servitude in the rest of medieval Europe.
Download or read book The Story of Rolf and the Viking s Bow written by Allen French and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Viking Warrior written by Judson Roberts and published by Judson Roberts. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the son of a chieftain and a princess--yet Halfdan was born a slave. Now he is becoming a man and it is time for him to meet his destiny. Though raised a slave who could only dream of freedom, young Halfdan's fate may be about to change. If freed, he may train as a Viking warrior, and come to know the glories of true brotherhood and the horrors of unspeakable evil. In the world of Vikings, a warrior's destiny is forged in the heat of battle. If the fates decree it, Hafdan may emerge as a new hero . . . a new myth . . . and perhaps a new legend.
Download or read book Architecture Society and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia written by Marianne Hem Eriksen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.
Download or read book Sacrificial Smoke written by Jan Fridegård and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in a famed trilogy of historical (Viking) novels by Swedish author Friedegard (1897-1968), originally published in 1949 and translated, with a foreword and notes, by Robert E. Bjork. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Warrior Heroes The Viking s Revenge written by Benjamin Hulme-Cross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time with brothers Arthur and Finn to rewrite the past. Fascinating historical facts combine with action packed fiction to create a dramatic and gripping adventure. This fast paced and exciting narrative will leave the reader wanting more and more. Will the boys escape the grips of the Vikings and succeed in changing the course of history?
Download or read book Viking Beast written by Emmanuelle de Maupassant and published by Dark Castle Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reputation built upon ruthless savagery. A warrior revelling in bloodshed and conquest. A man bent on revenge. Newly wedded to Eirik, now jarl of all Svolvaen, I carry the baby we both long for. Our happiness seems assured, until I fall into the hands of Svolvaen's fiercest adversary, sworn to avenge his wife's death. I must submit as his thrall or forfeit my life. But a murderer remains in our midst, and his ambition knows no bounds. 'Viking Beast' is the third volume in the 'Viking Warriors' dark romance trilogy. A novel of love, betrayal, secrets and redemption. Heat Level : Volcanic Tropes and Themes: forbidden love enemies to lovers love triangle rival brothers kidnap / abduction / captive murder revenge dark romance Viking romance Please be aware, this volume has dubious consent and some attempted assault
Download or read book The Viking Gael Saga written by JTT Ryder and published by Old World Heroism ENK. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debt that needs to be paid. A life ended. A man sworn to avenge what is lost… no matter the cost. 870 AD, western Norway. In a time when marauders stoke fear in the hearts of Kings and commoners, a Viking named Ulf the Old comes to collect on a debt owed to him by demanding brothers Asgeir and Odd join his crew. Not eager to leave their life behind, the brothers challenge Ulf and his son to a duel, but are defeated when Ulf slays Odd. With his wounded pride and shattered heart, Asgeir joins Ulf’s Vikings, and swears to avenge his brother. But as the days unfold, they face a barrage of attacks from every direction. Will Asgeir win back his family’s honor? Or will he find himself slowly developing camaraderie with Ulf? Find out for yourself in “The Viking Gael Saga: Book 1” — a captivating Viking-age historical fiction adventure novel written by Viking-period archaeologist and author JTT Ryder. If you’re looking to embark on an epic saga of the making of a man, set in a time where kingdoms are at the mercy of Viking-led invasions and violence, then get ready to meet your next favorite series!
Download or read book An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies written by James Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Viking Age Vol 1 of 2 Illustrations written by Paul B. Du Chaillu and published by Press of J. J. Little & Co. This book was released on with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook CHAPTER I. CIVILISATION AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE NORTH. A study of the ancient literature and abundant archæology of the North gives us a true picture of the character and life of the Norse ancestors of the English-speaking peoples. We can form a satisfactory idea of their religious, social, political, and warlike life. We can follow them from their birth to their grave. We see the infant exposed to die, or water sprinkled, and a name bestowed upon it; follow the child in his education, in his sports; the young man in his practice of arms; the maiden in her domestic duties and embroidery; the adult in his warlike expeditions; hear the clash of swords and the songs of the Scald, looking on and inciting the warriors to greater deeds of daring, or it may be recounting afterwards the glorious death of the hero. We listen to the old man giving his advice at the Thing. We learn about their dress, ornaments, implements, weapons; their expressive names and complicated relationships; their dwellings and convivial halls, with their primitive or magnificent furniture; their temples, sacrifices, gods, and sacred ceremonies; their personal appearance, even to the hair, eyes, face and limbs. Their festivals, betrothal and marriage feasts are open to us. We are present at their athletic games preparatory to the stern realities of the life of that period, where honour and renown were won on the battle-field; at the revel and drunken bout; behold the dead warrior on his burning ship or on the pyre, and surrounded by his weapons, horses, slaves, or fallen companions who are to enter with him into Valhalla; look into the death chamber, see the mounding and the Arvel, or inheritance feast. These Norsemen had carriages or chariots, as well as horses, and the numerous skeletons of this animal in graves or bogs prove it to have been in common use at a very early period. Their dress, and the splendour of their riding equipment for war, the richness of the ornamentation of their weapons of offence and defence are often carefully described. Everywhere we see that gold was in the greatest abundance. The descriptions of such wealth might seem to be very much exaggerated; but, as will be seen in the course of this work, the antiquities treasured in the museums of the North bear witness to the truthfulness of the records. The spade has developed the history of Scandinavia, as it has done that of Assyria and Etruria, but in addition the Northmen had the Saga and Edda literature to perpetuate their deeds. We are the more astonished as we peruse the Eddas and Sagas giving the history of the North, and examine the antiquities found in the country, for we hear hardly anything about the customs of the people from the Roman writers, and our ideas regarding them have been thoroughly vitiated by the earlier Frankish and English chronicles and other monkish writings, or by the historians who have taken these records as a trustworthy authority. Some writers, in order to give more weight to these chronicles, and to show the great difference that existed between the invaders and invaded, and how superior the latter were to the former, paint in a graphic manner, without a shadow of authority, the contrast between the two peoples. England is described as being at that time a most beautiful country, a panegyric which does not apply to fifteen or twenty centuries ago; while the country of the aggressor is depicted as one of swamp and forest inhabited by wild and savage men. It is forgotten that after a while the people of the country attacked were the same people as those of the North or their descendants, who in intelligence, civilisation, and manly virtues were far superior to the original and effete inhabitants of the shores they invaded. To be continue in this ebook...
