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A comprehensive and thrilling history, based on the latest scholarship, offers the definitive portrait of the Vikings

Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from their ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls "the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history". His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries to reveal a sweeping picture of one of history's most amazing civilizations.

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Robert Ferguson is one of the world's leading scholars in

Scandinavian studies. After studying in London under Peter Foote,

co-author of the classic Viking Achievement, he emigrated to Norway

in 1984. At the invitation of the Norwegian Government he has

lectured on aspects of Norwegian and Scandinavian history and

culture at embassies, universities and other cultural venues in St

Petersburg, New Delhi, Mumbai, Oslo, Bergen, Prague, Warsaw, Riga,

Edinburgh, Vasa, New York and at the Library of Congress in

Washington. His previous books include biographies of Henrik Ibsen

and Knut Hamsun, and in 2002 his Viking Age novel Siste kjarlighet

(Last Love), based on the 13th century Saga of Hallfred the

Troublesome Poet, was published to critical acclaim in Norway. The

Hammer and the Cross was written between 2002 and 2009 in Oslo and

on the Isle of Cumbrae. --This text refers to an out of print

or unavailable edition of this title.

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Sporting monikers such as Sven Forkbeard and Harald Bluetooth,

the Vikings left arresting traces in saga and chronicle, in

addition to their signature destruction and massacre. Ferguson

synthesizes Viking scholarship for a general audience and follows

the Vikings wherever they went. Spreading from Scandinavia, they

entered written records as a result of raids on Britain and Ireland

in the late 700s; soon the divisive Carolingian empire, and the

land that would become Russia, would experience the Viking scourge

as well. But along with slaves and booty came the encounter with

Christianity, among whose proselytizers numbered the fearless

believers who brought the Gospel to worshippers of Odin and Thor.

The pagan-Christian interface informs Ferguson’s narrative, and by

emphasizing experiences of the conversion process by identifiable

individuals within a centuries-long direction of Vikings forsaking

their old religion, the author textures the pillage that he asserts

is necessary to a complete understanding of the Viking age.

Integrating archaeological, genetic, linguistic, and literary

information, Ferguson realizes a Viking history bound to satisfy

the interested reader. --Gilbert Taylor --This text refers to

an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A comprehensive and thrilling history, based on the latest scholarship, offers the definitive portrait of the Vikings

Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from their ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls "the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history". His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries to reveal a sweeping picture of one of history's most amazing civilizations.