Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages Through the Viking World

Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages Through the Viking World
ISBN-10
0190916060
ISBN-13
9780190916060
Category
Education
Pages
521
Language
English
Published
2024
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Davide Zori

Description

Age of Wolf and Wind provides a new introduction to the Viking Age that capitalizes on recent archaeological discoveries and breakthroughs in the application of analytical techniques from the natural sciences. Author Davide Zori, an interdisciplinary archaeologist with fieldwork experience across the Viking world, delves into key questions of the Viking Age, such as the motivations of Scandinavians to board open wooden ships to raid England and cross the North Atlantic in search of new worlds beyond Europe. Each chapter offers new conclusions about the Vikings--their views on death, their raiding tactics, their laving feasts, their forging of powerful medieval states--by juxtaposing evidence from written texts, archaeology, and new scientific analyses.

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