A History of the Vikings

xviii, 504 pp. "This new and revised edition, incorporating the results of the latest research, and containing all the original rich illustrative material--30 plates, 58 figures in the text, and 15 maps--will fully maintain its reputation as the best book on its subject yet written. It recounts the Viking achievement in war, trade, and colonization overseas: the assult on the British Isles and Western Christendom; the trading and military ventures to the Slav and Muslim worlds and Byzantium; and the western voyages of discovery and settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and America. It also examines the bases and characteristics of the entire Viking situation: environment, civilization, and culture; society and livelihood; law, art, and religion; the endless compulsions of land-and-wealth-hunger, the paramount importance of ships and sea-power."