The Vikings, David Angus
The Vikings, David Angus
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The Vikings

Author: David Angus

Narrator: Joe Marsh

Unabridged: 2 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 04/26/2011


Synopsis

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to ‘go a’viking’ meant to take to sea in a long ship for an adventure. Sometimes this was a trading trip, sometimes a piratical raid. Often it was both. Explorers and traders, warriors and poets, they ranged between Byzantium in the south and Iceland, and even North America, in the North. Their fame lives on.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eli on May 10, 2012

Wow, I am the first to review this! I don't often read (or in this case, listen)to non-fiction but I thought it was time for a change. This was a really well organized account of the vikings and cleared up alot of things that I never really understood about them (like where exactly they came from in......more

Goodreads review by İlhanCa on May 21, 2021

Vikings are well told in this book........more