An illuminating presentation of daily life in Viking-era Scandinavia.
Preface Chronology Maps Introduction: Time and Space Domestic Life Economic Life Intellectual Life Material Life Political Life Recreational Life Religious Life For Further Reading
KIRSTEN WOLF is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"For many people, the word "Vikings" conjures images of brawny
pagan warrior-raiders roaming the seas in dragon-prowed ships, hair
and eyes wild as they brawl with each other and their neighbors,
and burn, pillage, rape, kill, and/or enslave innocent villages and
monasteries. In this book, Kirsten Wolf reveals the warlike Vikings
had a more complex culture. Viking-age Scandinavians were also
farmers, hunters, fishermen, craftsmen, and even merchants; they
traced kinship through both parents, and women could inherit
property. In addition to its Preface and eight densely-packed
chapters on every aspect of Viking life, Daily Life of the Vikings
includes a Chronology, a brief Glossary, an Index, and "For Further
Reading..,."[a] well-researched, well-written book on a too-often
sensationally mythologized people."-Sixteenth-Century Journal
?[P]robes the realities of the greater Scandinavian community and
its relationship to its Viking explorers.?-MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's
Bookshelf
?For many people, the word "Vikings" conjures images of brawny
pagan warrior-raiders roaming the seas in dragon-prowed ships, hair
and eyes wild as they brawl with each other and their neighbors,
and burn, pillage, rape, kill, and/or enslave innocent villages and
monasteries. In this book, Kirsten Wolf reveals the warlike Vikings
had a more complex culture. Viking-age Scandinavians were also
farmers, hunters, fishermen, craftsmen, and even merchants; they
traced kinship through both parents, and women could inherit
property. In addition to its Preface and eight densely-packed
chapters on every aspect of Viking life, Daily Life of the Vikings
includes a Chronology, a brief Glossary, an Index, and "For Further
Reading..,."[a] well-researched, well-written book on a too-often
sensationally mythologized people.?-Sixteenth-Century Journal
"ÝP¨robes the realities of the greater Scandinavian community and
its relationship to its Viking explorers."-MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's
Bookshelf
"[P]robes the realities of the greater Scandinavian community and
its relationship to its Viking explorers."-MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's
Bookshelf
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