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ISBN 13 : 9780993274039
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Shetland and the Viking World written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Fenton
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Northern and Western Isles in the Viking World written by Alexander Fenton and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1984 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om Orkney- og Shetlandsøerne, Færøerne og Island.
Author : Olwyn Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956569882
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Things in the Viking World written by Olwyn Owen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Morton
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787133060
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Shetland written by James Morton and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful slice of home, food and family from one of the most beautiful places on earth: this book is heaven." – Jenny Colgan Shetland is where Scotland meets Scandinavia and the North Sea hits the Atlantic Ocean. Isolated, unspoilt and rich in history and tradition, Shetland is a truly singular place. And for James and Tom Morton, it’s home. Shetland: Cooking on the Edge of the World explores life on an island with food, drink and community at its heart. Surrounded by crystal-clear waters, Shetland seafood is second to none. The native sheep roam freely. Here cooks, farmers, crofters and fishermen toil following traditions that go back hundreds of years. This is a heartfelt book, full of passion for place and community. The recipes celebrate the very best the isles have to offer, feasting on the ocean’s harvest and the treasures of croft land and cliff face. There is cooking fuelled by necessity and thrift and, as you might expect on Scotland’s Norse edge, there are drams and parties galore. With spectacular photography by Andy Sewell, Shetland celebrates a very different kind of island paradise.
Author : Leszek Gardela
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789256666
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Women and Weapons in the Viking World written by Leszek Gardela and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Age (c. 750–1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia wreaked havoc across the European continent and when Norse merchants travelled to distant corners of the world in pursuit of slaves, silver, and exotic commodities. Until relatively recently, archaeologists and textual scholars had the tendency to weave a largely male-dominated image of this pivotal period in world history, dismissing or substantially downplaying women's roles in Norse society. Today, however, there is ample evidence to suggest that many of the most spectacular achievements of Viking Age Scandinavians - for instance in craftsmanship, exploration, cross-cultural trade, warfare and other spheres of life - would not have been possible without the active involvement of women. Extant textual sources as well as the perpetually expanding corpus of archaeological evidence thus demonstrate unequivocally that both within the walls of the household and in the wider public arena women’s voices were heard, respected and followed. This pioneering and lavishly illustrated monograph provides an in-depth exploration of women's associations with the martial sphere of life in the Viking Age. The multifarious motivations and circumstances that led women to engage in armed conflict or other activities whereby weapons served as potent symbols of prestige and empowerment are illuminated and interpreted through an interdisciplinary approach to medieval literature and archaeological evidence from Scandinavia and the wider Viking world. Additional cross-cultural excursions into the lives and legends of female warriors in other past and present cultural milieus - from the Asiatic steppes to the savannas of Africa and European battlefields - lead to a nuanced understanding of the idea of the armed woman and its embodiments in Norse literature, myth and archaeological reality.
Author : John Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shetland Folk-lore written by John Spence and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefan Brink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113431826X
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Viking World written by Stefan Brink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field, and the most comprehensive book of its kind ever attempted.
Author : Anne Pedersen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 877184936X
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Viking encounters written by Anne Pedersen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.
Author : Olwyn Owen
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Sea Road written by Olwyn Owen and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially they came as raiders and traders, but soon they built links with other civilizations and settled among them. They served as mercenaries at the court of Byzantium and discovered America five hundred years before Columbus. They established towns and a network of communications, exploited the riches of the East and explored the uncharted waters of the North Atlantic, colonizing uninhabited or sparsely populated lands on the margins of Europe. And early during this great outpouring of people from the Scandinavian homelands, the Vikings also came to England, Ireland and Scotland. The Sea Road takes the reader on a voyage through Viking Scotland. From Norway in the ninth century, the Vikings travelled to the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, and established the Orkney earldom as a powerful base from which they could make inroads into northern and north-east Scotland. Continuing the voyage around the north-west coast of Scotland, the next land-fall is the Western Isles, which the Vikings came to rule as surely as they did the north, and from where their influence was to penetrate into the westerns part of mainland Scotland. Finally, the ever pragmatic Vikings established a base in south-west Scotland and forged links with a mix of peoples in the Irish Sea area. Here the Isle of Man, a Viking kingdom, was pivotal in a cultural crossroads between Ireland, northern England and south-west Scotland. But it was in the north that their influence endured. The Viking Orkney earldom came to be an important player in the politics of the emerging nation of Scotland, and its influence was felt into medieval times and beyond. Even today, the traveler to Orkney and Shetland enters a Scandinavian Scotland. This book is part of a new series produced by Historic Scotland and Canongate which provides lively, accessible and up-to-date introductions to key themes and periods in Scottish history and prehistory.
Author : Paul Murton
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852281
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Viking Isles written by Paul Murton and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north – the island groups of Orkney and Shetland and the old counties of Caithness and Sutherland – which, for centuries, were part of the Nordic world as depicted in the great classic the Orkneyinga Saga. Today this fascinating Scandanavian legacy can be found everywhere – in physical remains, place-names, local traditions and folklore, and much else besides. This is a personal account of Paul's travels in the Viking north. Full of observation, history, anecdote and encounters with those who live there, it also serves as a practical guide to the many places of interest. From a sing-along with the Shanty Yell Boys to fishing off Muckle Flugga, from sword dancing with the men of Papa Stour to a Norwegian pub crawl in Lerwick, Paul paints a vivid picture of these lands and their people, and explores their extraordinary rich heritage.
Author : National Library of Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902220393
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Northern and Western Isles in the Viking World written by National Library of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steinar Imsen
Publisher : Tapir Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9788251925631
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The Norwegian Domination and the Norse World, C. 1100-c. 1400 written by Steinar Imsen and published by Tapir Academic Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of four planned volumes on the Norwegian realm and its dependencies in the central Middle Ages. As with future volumes, the underlying theme of this book is the transformation of Norway and parts of the Norse world into a monarchic state in the 12th and 13th centuries. The collection provides a presentation of the Norse world, the Norse community, the 'Norgesvelde' (the Norwegian domination), along with highlights of geographical, political, and cultural aspects. (Series: ROSTRA Books Trondheim Studies in History - No. 3)
Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429632819
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Vikings written by Neil Price and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over the last half-century, archaeology and its related disciplines have radically altered our understanding of this period. The Vikings explores why we now perceive them as a cosmopolitan mix of traders and warriors, craftsworkers and poets, explorers, and settlers. It details how, over the course of the Viking Age, their small-scale rural, tribal societies gradually became urbanised monarchies firmly emplaced on the stage of literate, Christian Europe. In the process, they transformed the cultures of the North, created the modern Nordic nation-states, and left a far-flung diaspora with legacies that still resonate today. Written by leading experts in the period and exploring the society, economy, identity and world-views of the early medieval Scandinavian peoples, and their unique religious beliefs that are still of enduring interest a millennium later, this book presents students with an unrivalled guide through this widely studied and fascinating subject, revealing the fundamental impacts of the Vikings in shaping the later course of European history.
Author : Ann Cleeves
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509809805
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Shetland written by Ann Cleeves and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gloriously illustrated companion to her crime novels featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland. Discover its past, meet its people, celebrate its festivals and see how the flora and fauna of the islands change with the seasons. An archipelago of more than a hundred islands, Shetland is the one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom. Its fifteen hundred miles of shore mean that wherever one stands, there is a view of the sea. It has sheltered voes and beaches and dramatically exposed cliffs, lush meadows full of wild flowers in the summer and bleak hilltops where only the hardiest of plants will grow. It is a place where traditions are valued and celebrated, but new technologies and ways of working are also embraced. Whether it is the drama of the Viking fire festival of Up Helly Aa in winter, or the piercing blue and hot pink of spring flowers on the clifftops, the long, white nights of midsummer or the fierce gales and high tides of autumn, Shetland is vividly captured in all its bleak and special beauty. A book to treasure, full of photos and insightful notes about the stunning location of the Shetland series, now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104482824
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland (1904) written by Gilbert Goudie and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Alexander Fenton
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Northern and Western Isles in the Viking World written by Alexander Fenton and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1984 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om Orkney- og Shetlandsøerne, Færøerne og Island.
Author : Noel Fojut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Guide to Prehistoric and Viking Shetland written by Noel Fojut and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide designed to take the interested amateur around Shetland on an archaeological journey of over 5000 years. This revised edition contains a chronological description and gazetteer of the many sites, from prehistoric to Norse, together with suggested area car tours.
