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R. I. Page.
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths.
Publisher Toronto U.P., 1995.
ISBN 0802008038;
ISBN-13 9780802008039.
Binding: hardback.
Printer: Bath Press, Avon.
Size: 175×245mm.
Page count 240pp.
Main language English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs on the dustjacket, a little wear on its edges and corners; pages a bit yellowed with age, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 608g.

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Aims to show the Vikings from their own point of view rather than that of prejudiced outsiders, in the form of brief introductory pieces followed by extensive quotations and extracts from Vikings’ own texts and those of people who knew them well.

Contents: Getting to know the Vikings; Viking homelands & their peoples; Settlement & land-holding; Vikings outside Scandinavia; The heroic life; The unheroic life; All sorts & conditions of men; Law; Myth, religion & superstition; Conversion to Christianity.
Appendix: List of texts quoted.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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