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R. I. Page.
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths.
Published London: British Museum Press, 2002 reprint (previously issued 2000; hardback was 1995).
ISBN 0714128007;
ISBN-13: 9780714128009.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by the Bath Press.
Size: 170x239x19mm.
Page count: 240pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: covers slightly scuffed & grubby; corners curled; spine uncreased, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £9.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 432g.

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Aims to show the Vikings from their own point of view rather than that of prejudiced outsiders, using extensive quotations and extracts from their 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.
Appendices: List of texts quoted.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

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


See also | Vikings | Saga |
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