Название: Adventures in Time: Fury of The Vikings
Автор: Dominic Sandbrook
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 2022
Страниц: 368
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.7 MB

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true.

'Thunder crashed across the sky. Fire-dragons soared through the heavens. And then, one fine June day, came the warriors from the north - the Vikings...'

Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We'll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred's England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the mountains of Iceland. For even in the most glittering cities on earth, no one is safe from the Northmen's fury...

The Vikings were murderous and magnificent, thrilling and terrifying. Among them were some of the most fearsome warriors in all history: Ragnar Hairy-Breeches and Ivar the Boneless, Sigurd Snake-Eye and Eric Bloodaxe, Sweyn Forkbeard and Harald Hardrada.

To ‘go viking’ was to go on an adventure, a raid or a pirate voyage. So being a Viking wasn’t a nationality; it was a way of life. It wasn’t something you were; it was something you did. Outsiders didn’t generally call them the Vikings, either. The English called them the heathens, the pagans or simply the Danes, while people in the East called them the Rus or the Varangians. And the Vikings themselves – the people who actually lived in Scandinavia – never thought of themselves that way. Instead, they called themselves ‘the Northmen’ or ‘the Norse’.