Viking Britain: A History Thomas Williams William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία Essays Lectures

A New Narrative History Of The Viking Age Interwoven With Exploration Physical Remains And Landscapes That Vikings Fashioned Walked: Their Rune-Stones Ship Burials Settlements Battlefields To Many Word ‘Viking’ Brings Mind Red Scenes Rape Pillage Marauders From Beyond Sea Rampaging Around British Coastline In Last Gloomy Centuries Before Norman Conquest It Is True Britain Was Turbulent Violent Place Kings Warlords Who Have Impressed Memories On Period Revel Names Fire Blood Stir Imagination: Svein Forkbeard Edmund Ironside Ivar Boneless Alfred Great Erik Bloodaxe Edgar Pacifier Amongst Others Evidence For Brutality Dominance Avarice Pride Still Unearthed Soil Stunning Regularity But This Not Whole Story Thomas Williams Has Drawn His Experience As Project Curator Museum Exhibition Vikings: Life Legend Show How People We Call Came Just Raid Plunder Settle Colonize Rule Impact These Islands Profound Enduring Shaping Social Cultural Political Development Hundreds Years Indeed Language Literature Place-Names Folklore Presence Scandinavian Settlers Can Be Felt Memory – Filtered Refashioned Through Writings Like J R Tolkien William Morris G K Chesterton Transformed Western Imagination Remarkable Book Makes Use Academic Research First-Hand Drawing Deeply Relics Contemporaries Runestones Poems Chronicles Offers Vital Evocation Forgotten World Its Echoes Later Implications Present Σελίδες: 416 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm