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Archaeologist Neil Oliver ventures beyond the Vikings' bloody reputation to reveal the fascinating true lives of their chieftains, warlords, and explorers. The Vikings are infamous for taking no prisoners, relishing cruel retribution, and priding themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the West and as far as Baghdad in the East. As the Vikings did not record their own history, we have to discover it for ourselves, and their tale, as Neil Oliver reveals, is an extraordinary story of a stalwart people who came from the brink of destruction to develop awesome seafaring power that reached a quarter of the way around the globe, building an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years. Drawing on discoveries that have only recently come to light, Oliver follows the Vikings' trail to uncover what drove them to...

Who reads The Vikings : A New History?

Author

Neil Oliver

Publisher

Pegasus Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781480448063

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

3.86 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14