Table of Contents

List of Colour Plates
List of Maps
Notes on Contributors
1: Peter Sawyer: The Age of the Vikings and Before
2: Janet L. Nelson: The Frankish Empire
3: Simon Keynes: The Vikings in England, ic./i790-1016
4: Donnchadh Ó Corráin: Ireland, Wales, Man, and the Hebrides
5: Sveinbjörn Rafnsson: The Atlantic Islands
6: Thomas S. Noonan: Scandinavians in European Russia
7: Niels Lund: The Danish Empire and the End of the Viking Age
8: Jan Bill: Ships and Seamanship
9: Preben Meulengracht Sørensen: Religions Old and New
10: Lars Lönnroth: The Vikings in History and Legend
11: Peter Sawyer: The Viking Legacy
Further Reading
Chronology
Index

About the Author

Peter Sawyer is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds.

Reviews

`the volume will indeed be a treasury for pictorial sources, and the illustrations to more off-the-beaten-track chapters (especially Noonan's, on European Russia) are correspondingly unusual.'
Guy Halsall, War in History, 8, 3, 2001
`the truest picture yet of the Vikings and their age.'
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