Guts & glory the Vikings
From battle-axe-wielding tribes plundering the greatest cities of Europe to powerful kings and queens ruling their dominions with iron fists, the Vikings were some of the most feared and fearless figures in European history. Find the bravest heroes, the most menacing villains, and unbelievably aweso...
| Main Author: | Thompson, Ben, 1980- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Butzer, C. M. (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Guts & glory.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The Viking warrior
- Norse mythology
- Turgeis the Devil
- The voyage of Hasting
- Kievan Rus
- The Vikings at home
- The great heathen army
- Britain fights back
- Harald Fairhair
- Gunnhild, mother of kings
- The siege of Paris
- Hrolf the Walker
- Egil Skallagrimsson
- Saint Olga of Kiev
- Erik the Red
- The Varangian Guard
- Christianity comes to Heathendom
- The Vikings discover America
- The decline and fall of Ethelred the Unready
- The Norman Conquest.