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Book Synopsis The Heroic Age of Scandinavia by : Gabriel Turville-Petre
Download or read book The Heroic Age of Scandinavia written by Gabriel Turville-Petre and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Scandinavia by : T. K. Derry
Download or read book History of Scandinavia written by T. K. Derry and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Scandinavian countries, emphasizing common features in their heritage.
Book Synopsis Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern; Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by : Andrew Crichton
Download or read book Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern; Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway written by Andrew Crichton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. The Heroic Age of Scandinavian History. Ancient Kings of Sweden.--Dynasty of Odin.--Expulsion of the Ynglings.--Their Character.--Ivar Vidfadme conquers Sweden.--Introduction of Christianity.--Ancient Kings of Denmark.-- The Skioldungs.-- Dan Mykillati, Founder of the Monarchy.--Battle of Bravalla and Death of Harald Hildetand.--Conflicting Accounts of Ragnar Lodbrok.--Exploits of his Sons.--Wars of the Danes with Charlemagne.--Exile and Baptism of Harald Klak.--First Christian Missionaries to Denmark.--Pious Labours of Ancharius, the Apostle of the North.--Revolution under Gorm the Old.--Progress DEGREES Christianity.--Power and Naval Resources of Harald Blaatand.-- Svend Tveskteg seizes the Throne.--His Piracies and Devastations in England.--Extensive Dominions of Knut, or Canute the Great.--Early Chronicles of Norway.--Harald Haarfager subdues all the other petty Chiefs, and becomes sole Monarch.--His Foreign Expeditions and Domestic Policy.-- Cruelties and Expulsion of Erik Blodasxe.--HakontheGood.-- His Efforts to introduce Christianity.--Opposition of the Peor pie to the new Religion.--Intrigues of Gunhilda, Widow of Erik Blodasxe.--Civil Dissensions.--Invasion and Defeat of the Danes.-- Expulsion of Hakon Jarl.-- Romantic Life of Olaf Tryggvason.--His Return to Norway and Election to the Throne.--His cruel Persecution of Idolaters, and Destruction of the Pagan Temples.--Hostilities with Denmark and Sweden.--Turbulent Reign of Olaf the Saint.--Submission of Norway to Canute the Great. After briefly relating the legend of Odin, the Ynglinga Saga proceeds to deduce the history of the dynasty of that name in Sweden during the first seven centuries of the Christian era. Of the sovereigns descended from Magog who are allege
Book Synopsis The Heroic Age by : Hector Munro Chadwick
Download or read book The Heroic Age written by Hector Munro Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heroic Age by : Stratis Haviaras
Download or read book The Heroic Age written by Stratis Haviaras and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heroic Sagas and Ballads by : Stephen A. Mitchell
Download or read book Heroic Sagas and Ballads written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history. Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation—some oral, some written—Mitchell explores their aesthetic and social dimensions, demonstrating their function both as entertainment and as a literature with a more serious purpose, one with deep roots in Nordic literary consciousness. The traditions that these sagas relate possessed an importance beyond the temporal and geographical confines of medieval Iceland, and Heroic Sagas and Ballads considers the process by which these heroic materials were subsequently recast as metrical romances in Iceland and as ballads throughout the rest of Scandinavia. It is ultimately concerned with much more than just those stories that inspired such modern writers as Richard Wagner and H. Rider Haggard; its anthropological and folkloric approach to the legendary sagas shows how the extraliterary dimensions of medieval texts can be explored. Heroic Sagas and Ballads addresses issues of central importance to medievalists, folklorists, comparatists, Scandinavianists, and students of the ballad.
Book Synopsis The Boundless Sea by : David Abulafia
Download or read book The Boundless Sea written by David Abulafia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world's oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization. From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, ("Magnificent . . . radiates scholarship and a sense of wonder and fun," Simon Sebag Montefiore; Book of the Year, The Economist), David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans--the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian--which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people--free and enslaved--across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Far more than merely another history of exploration, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks gradually formed a continuum of interaction and interconnection. Working chronologically, Abulafia moves from the earliest forays of peoples taking hand-hewn canoes into uncharted waters, to the routes taken daily by supertankers in the thousands. History on the grandest scale and scope, written with passion and precision, this is a project few could have undertaken. Abulafia, whom The Atlantic calls "superb writer with a gift for lucid compression and an eye for the telling detail," proves again why he ranks as one of the world's greatest storytellers.
Book Synopsis Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern by : Andrew Crichton
Download or read book Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern written by Andrew Crichton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern; Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by : Andrew Crichton
Download or read book Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern; Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway written by Andrew Crichton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern; Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway; Comprehending a Description of These Countries ... by : Andrew Crichton (Historian.)
Download or read book Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern; Being a History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway; Comprehending a Description of These Countries ... written by Andrew Crichton (Historian.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Books on Sweden in English by : Susan Larson-Fleming
Download or read book Books on Sweden in English written by Susan Larson-Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Vikings by : Gwyn Jones
Download or read book A History of the Vikings written by Gwyn Jones and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the ancient Scandinavian peoples.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries by : Fabian Holt
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries written by Fabian Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music has come to play a significant role in the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries. Research on the region's culture has largely followed national narratives created by political and economic institutions, even as cultural life in the region--which spans a large area of northern Europe and the North Atlantic--displays more complex geographies and evolving global dynamics. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries offers a series of exemplary studies of music in these transnational dynamics in the specific context of the region's cultures and natural environments, written by the foremost experts in the field. Chapters highlight and challenge music's place in exotic images of the North and in transnational environmentalism, tourism, racism, and media industries. The Handbook illustrates how transnational dynamics evolve and shape musical life and the institutional spheres of policy, education, and research.
Book Synopsis Vikings by : Tristan Mueller-Vollmer
Download or read book Vikings written by Tristan Mueller-Vollmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they did it in a highly readable and informative resource volume. How did the Vikings know when to strike? What were their military strengths? Who were their leaders? What was the impact of their raids? These and many more questions are answered in this volume, which will benefit students and general readers alike. The only encyclopedia devoted specifically to the topic of conflict, invasions, and raids in the Viking Age, this book presents detailed coverage of the Vikings, who are infamous for their violent marauding across Europe during the early Middle Ages. Featuring extracts of poetry and prose from the Viking Age, the book provides cultural context in addition to an in-depth analysis of Viking military practices.
Download or read book Scandinavia written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Scandinavia by : S. A. Dunham
Download or read book The History of Scandinavia written by S. A. Dunham and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandinavia prior to the tenth century is the region of romance, - of the wildest legends. These are admissible into the severe domain of history in so far only as they illustrate national opinions and manners, - the noblest part of the study. For this reason, chiefly, more have been retained in the present volume than are to be found in any preceding work on the subject. Indeed, were they rejected, nine tenths of northern history must be rejected with them.