Vikings & Anglo-Saxons!
We are a hardy race, being independent booksellers, so of course we are interested in those Norse entrepreneurs who made Europe a lively place in the so-called Dark Ages.
One of the standard-setting writers about medieval Scandinavia was Nobel Prize-winning Sigrid Undset. I have assembled all her works that we carry on this page, even though they technically do not involve Viking culture and history (a few are even contemporary to Undset’s own time). Other than that, she needs no defense as one of the greatest of historical novelists.
Many books have emerged on the conflicts, the tensions, and the meldings between the Vikings and the inhabitants of what would become the British isles, so I have expanded the topic to include the Picts, the Druids, and Anglo-Saxons.
Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
Beyond the Northlands
Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
- A fascinating voyage to the furthest edgelands of the Viking world via the drama of the Old Norse sagas - from the bleak landscapes of the Arctic Circle to medieval Constantinople, pre-Columbus north America to Kievan Rus
- Places the rich confusion and fantasy of the sagas in the illuminating context of an array of other evidence, from rune-stones and ruins to texts from Byzantium and Baghdad
- Includes vivid descriptions of the actual landscapes discovered, explored and inhabited by the Norsemen
- Enables readers to understand the Norsemen like never before, as if they were travelling with them on their adventures to far-flung corners of the world