Author: Knut Helle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521472999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.
Author: Thomas Kingston Derry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816608355
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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Traces the history of Scandinavian countries, emphasizing common features in their heritage.
Author: Theron Douglas Price
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190231971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past human societies. The area was essentially unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of human activity in Scandinavia - much of it remarkably preserved in its bogs, lakes, and fjords - have given archaeologists a richly detailed portrait of the evolution of human society. In this book, Doug Price provides an archaeological history of Scandinavia-a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway-from the arrival of the first humans after the last Ice Age to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. Constructed similarly to the author's previous book, Europe before Rome, Ancient Scandinaviaprovides overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by detailed, illustrative examples from the archaeological record. An engrossing and comprehensive picture emerges of change across the millennia, as human society evolves from small bands of hunter - gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings. The material evidence of these past societies - arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships - give vivid testimony to the ancient humans who once called home this often unforgiving edge of the inhabitable world.
Author: T. K. Derry
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816637997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Traces the history of Scandinavian countries, emphasizing common features in their heritage.
Author: Paul C. Sinding
Publisher:
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Paul Christian Sinding
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: T. K. Derry
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Paul C. Sinding
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Author: Paul C. Sinding
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: Paul Christian Sinding
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382324121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
