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Pages: 479
Authors: Ben Waggoner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-15 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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The Norse men and women who sailed to Iceland brought stories with them-stories of their lives and their ancestors, passed down for centuries, going back in tim
Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Oren Falk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have be
Echoes of Valhalla
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Jón Karl Helgason
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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An account of how Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages, and battles) have been reinvented and
Heathen Garb and Gear: Ritual Dress, Tools, and Art for the Practice of Germanic Heathenry
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The Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Germanic tribes, Goths, and other Germanic-speaking tribes are renowned today in myth, legend, and popular culture. But how did they
The Far Traveler
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Nancy Marie Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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"Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed of