Table of Contents

List of illustrations
1: Vikings then and now
2: Early Scandinavian kingdoms
3: Pagans and Christians
4: Changes in the countryside
5: Towns and trade
6: Across the ocean: ships and seafaring
7: Expansion overseas
8: Vikings in England
9: Raiders and settlers around the Irish Sea
10: Vikings and Picts: genocide or assimilation?
11: Landnám in the North Atlantic
12: The edge of the world: Greenland and North America
13: Re-inventing the Vikings
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Julian Richards is Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, and co-director of the Centre for Medieval Studies. He specialises in the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England, and has directed several excavations of Viking settlements, including the only Viking cremation cemetery in the British Isles. Previous publications include Viking Age England (Tempus, 2000).