

The Vikings
Author: Frank R. Donovan
Series: American Heritage
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 3 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 02/28/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History
Synopsis
The Norsemen eventually penetrated all of England and Scotland, founded cities in Ireland, gained a powerful province in France, controlled Frisia and the modern Netherlands, and raided lands around Spain, passing into the Mediterranean to attack Italy and North Africa. They established the first Russian kingdom, challenged Constantinople, and provided a personal guard for the Byzantine emperor. They settled Iceland, where they developed Europe's first republic, founded two colonies on Greenland, and explored parts of North America five centuries before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. Then, like the abrupt end of a summer thunderstorm, their adventures ceased.