The Vikings A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 2nd Ediion

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Title: The Vikings A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 2nd Ediion
Author: Julian D. Richards
Category: Medieval, European General, History
Language: English | 176 Pages | ISBN: 9780198948995

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring  The Vikings are of huge popular and academic interest, but 'Viking' is a nebulous concept: in different contexts, Vikings have been marauders, merchants, manufacturers, poets, explorers, democrats, statesmen, or warriors. It is also a relatively recent concept. Originally used to refer only to pirate activity, it came to be used as an ethnic term to refer to a whole people, and then as a chronological label, giving its name to the Viking Age. With this fluidity it didn't mean the same in tenth-century Scandinavia, fifteenth-century Iceland, and nineteenth-century England. In fact, our modern usage of Viking owes more to later re-inventions than any original reality. This Very Short Introduction presents all that is new and exciting about Vikings in a short and accessible volume. It reviews who they were, where they came from, and why, and it also seeks to demonstrate why they have retained their importance to...

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