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In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond; north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. __Beyond the Northlands__ explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond

Who reads Beyond the Northlands : Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas?

Author

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191004483

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13