VIKINGOS (NEW EDITION)

A Brilliant History of the Vikings and Their World. The Viking Age witnessed an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. Viking traders, pirates, explorers, and colonizers traveled from North America to the Asian steppes and sailed every sea. But for centuries, these peoples have been presented to us through a distorted lens to suit the tastes of medieval chroniclers, Elizabethan playwrights, imperialist powers, and many others. In Vikings: The Definitive History of the Northern Peoples, renowned historian Neil Price presents for the first time an accurate portrait of the Vikings based on the latest archaeological research and discoveries. In an epic journey spanning from the fall of the Roman Empire to the 12th century, Price traces the origins of the Vikings, uncovers their culture and cosmology, and explains what drove them to embark on the raids that made them feared throughout Europe. Price shows us the Vikings as they saw themselves. Within its pages, a people completely different from our own comes to life, glorious yet terrible, born of winter, war, and trade, bloody yet exquisite. Vikings is a monumental story about one of the most fascinating periods in history that forever changed the course of the European continent.