Vikings

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Middle Ages/Middle History

Authors: Allen Mawer In Year : 1913

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Vikings

Introduction
Chapter 1. Causes of the Viking movement
Chapter 2. The Viking Movement...
Chapter 3. The Vikings in England . . .
Chapter 4. The Vikings in the Frankish...
Chapter 5. The Vikings in Ireland...
Chapter 6. The Vikings in the Orkneys...
Chapter 7. The Vikings in Baltic Lands and Russia
Chapter 8. Viking Civilisation
Chapter 9. Scandinavian Influence...
Chapter 10. Scandinavian Influence in Ireland
Chapter 11. Scandinavian Influence in England
Chapter 12. Scandinavian Influence in the Empire and Iceland

This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University of Durham: late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes the following chapters: I.Causes of the Viking movement; II.The Viking movement down to the middle of the 9th century; III.The Vikings in England to the death of Harthacnut ; IV.The Vikings in the Frankish Empire to the founding of Normandy (911);V. The Vikings in Ireland to the battle of Clontarf (1014); VI.The Vikings in the Orkneys, Scotland, the Western Islands and Man; VII.The Vikings in Baltic lands and Russia; VIII.Viking civilisation; IX. Scandinavian influence in the Orkneys, Shetlands, the Western Islands and Man; X. Scandinavian influence in Ireland ; XI. Scandinavian influence in England; and XII. Scandinavian influence in the Empire and Iceland. - Summary by Kevin Johnson