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    XIVThe Viking Age
    A Reader, Fourth Edition

    Angus A. Somerville (Author), R. Andrew McDonald (Author)

    9781487550059

    Paperback / softback, published 8 July 2025

    576 pages, 22 illustrations
    22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm, 0.77 kg

    The fourth edition of The Viking Age provides an extensive deep dive into the world of the Vikings, spanning from the eighth and ninth centuries to the present, while also featuring key scholarly interpretations from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Building on the structure and content of previous editions, nearly every chapter has been reworked and expanded, with the addition of an entirely new chapter on commerce and trade. This edition broadens the range of materials while preserving the innovations of earlier editions and advancing them in new directions.

    In The Viking Age, readers are submerged in a comprehensive exploration of the Viking era, covering essential topics such as the role of women in Viking society, the significance of slavery in the Viking economy, commerce and trade, the use of Arabic sources, Viking religion, fertility gods, guardian spirits, the exploits of the Norse kings of Man and the Isles, the importance of Scandinavian and maritime law, the enduring legacy of the Vikings, and more. This extensively revised edition ultimately brings the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors.

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments

    Introduction
    1. The Scandinavian Homelands
    2. Scandinavian Society
    3. Early Religion and Belief
    4. Gender in the Viking Age
    5. Viking Warriors and Their Weapons
    6. Fjord-Serpents: Viking Ships
    7. “Sudden and Unforeseen Attacks of Northmen”
    8. “The Heathens Stayed”: Campaigns, Conquests, and Settlements
    9. Into the Western Ocean: The Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland
    10. Austrveg: The Viking Road to the East
    11. “Going from Land to Land on Trading Voyages”: Merchants and Trade
    12. From Odin to Christ
    13. State-Building at Home and Abroad
    14. The End of the Viking Age
    15. Reawakening Angantyr

    Sources
    Index of Topics
    Index of Authors and Sources
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