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  • Iron Age Myth and Materiality

    An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000

    by Lotte Hedeager ...
    Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the documentation of an oral past relates to its material ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Femina

    A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

    by Janina Ramirez ...
    **THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY PRIZEA "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must ReadA groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters**The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Age of the Vikings

    by Anders Winroth ...
    A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • German : Biography of a Language

    Biography of a Language

    by Ruth H. Sanders ...
    Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the language as it evolved across the millennia. She sheds light on the influence ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Women and Weapons in the Viking World

    Amazons of the North

    by Leszek Gardela ...
    "Invigorating . . . Gardeła reappraises the connections between women and violence in an early-medieval society that has left few texts to guide us." — Studies in Late AntiquityThis book sets out to investigate the idea of "the armed woman" in the Viking Age through a comprehensive and cross-cultural approach and weaves a nuanced picture of women's lives in the Viking world.The Viking Age (c. AD ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Viking World

    Edited by Stefan Brink, Neil Price ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    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.Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Northern Dawn: A History of the Reawakening of the Germanic Spirit

    From the Twilight of the Gods to the Sun at Midnight

    by Stephen Edred Flowers ...
    Series Book 1 - The Northern Dawn
    Throughout the United States and Europe, a revival of interest in all things Germanic is taking place. This can be seen in the growth of pre-Christian religious movements, and in the much wider popularity of movies, novels, and television shows about the Viking Age. Just as other ethnicities show a healthy desire to reconnect with their indigenous past, the revival of Germanic culture appeals to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga

    by Margaret Clunies Ross ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Barbarian Rites

    The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes

    by Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, Ph.D. ...
    Discover the untamed paganism of the Vikings and the Germanic tribes prior to the complete Christianization of Europe• Explores the different forms of magic practiced by these tribes, including runic magic, necromancy (death magic), soul-travel, and shape-shifting• Examines their rites of passage and initiation rituals and their most important gods, such as Odin, Loki, and Thor• Looks at barbarian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Languages of Scandinavia

    Seven Sisters of the North

    by Ruth H. Sanders ...
    "A much-needed, comprehensive, and accessible overview of the interrelationship among" Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, and Sami (Ilmari Ivaska, Scandinavian Studies).From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women in Old Norse Society

    by Jenny Jochens ...
    Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Women in Old Norse Society places particular emphasis on changing sexual mores and the impact of Christianity as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD