Vikingos

The Viking Age witnessed an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. Viking traders, pirates, explorers and settlers traveled from North America to the Asian steppes and sailed all the seas. But, for centuries, these peoples have been presented to us through a distorted lens to suit the tastes of medieval chroniclers, Elizabethan playwrights, imperialist powers and many others. In Vikings: The Definitive History of the Peoples of the North, renowned historian Neil Price presents for the first time an accurate portrait of the Vikings based on the latest archaeological research and discoveries. In an epic journey from the fall of the Roman Empire to the 12th century, Price traces the origins of the Vikings, reveals their culture and cosmology, and explains what prompted them to go on the rampage that made them feared across Europe. Price shows us the Vikings as they saw themselves. In the pages of it, a people totally different from us comes to life, glorious but terrible, born of winter, war and trade, bloody as well as exquisite. Vikings is a monumental story about one of the most fascinating periods in history that forever changed the course of the European continent.