Find a copy online
Links to this item
Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
---|---|
Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Short, William R. Icelanders in the Viking age. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2010 (DLC) 2009053299 (OCoLC)475664296 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William R Short |
ISBN: | 9780786456079 0786456078 1282534181 9781282534186 9786612534188 6612534184 |
OCLC Number: | 664253909 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | The land -- The settlement -- Government and law -- Social structure and gender -- Feuds, honor, and the culture of combat -- Milestones in life -- Farm, food production, and home life -- Manufacture and trade -- Transportation and navigation -- Art and leisure -- Religion, myth, and cult -- Exploration and settlement to the West -- Iceland's heritage -- Glossary -- Appendix: Sagas for outlanders. |
Responsibility: | William R. Short. |
Abstract:
The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-Age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings.
Read more...
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Icelanders in the Viking age : the people of the sagas".
All user tags (11)
View most popular tags as: tag list
| tag cloud
View most popular tags as:
tag list
| tag cloud
- daily life (by 1 person)
- epics (by 1 person)
- iceland (by 1 person)
- literature (by 1 person)
- medieval (by 1 person)
- middle ages (by 1 person)
- mythology (by 1 person)
- norse (by 1 person)
- sagas (by 1 person)
- vikings (by 1 person)
- 1 items are tagged withdaily life
- 1 items are tagged withepics
- 1 items are tagged withiceland
- 1 items are tagged withliterature
- 1 items are tagged withmedieval
- 1 items are tagged withmiddle ages
- 1 items are tagged withmythology
- 1 items are tagged withnorse
- 1 items are tagged withsagas
- 1 items are tagged withvikings
- 1 items are tagged withwarriors
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(11)
- Vikings -- Iceland -- History.
- Vikings -- Iceland -- Social life and customs.
- Vikings -- Material culture -- Iceland.
- Iceland -- History -- To 1262.
- Iceland -- Social life and customs.
- HISTORY -- General.
- Manners and customs.
- Vikings.
- Vikings -- Material culture.
- Vikings -- Social life and customs.
- Iceland.
User lists with this item (2)
- Viking Archeology Research Project(9 items)
by oworland updated 2018-02-14
- Til Viking Subj History(316 items)
by googlewright updated 2014-12-13