Vikingos

The Viking age witnessed an unprecedented expansion of Scandinavian peoples. Viking merchants, pirates, explorers, and colonizers traveled from North America to the Asian steppes and sailed across all seas. But, for centuries, these peoples have been presented to us through a distorted optics 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, the prestigious historian Neil Price presents for the first time an authoritative portrait of the Vikings based on the latest research and archaeological discoveries. In an epic journey spanning from the fall of the Roman Empire to the 12th century, Price traces the origin of the Vikings, reveals their culture and cosmology, and explains what prompted them to launch the looting that made them feared across Europe. Price shows us the Vikings as they saw themselves. In its pages, 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.