Author: Tamara Goranson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008455708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...
The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1)
Author: Tamara Goranson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008455708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008455708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...
The Voyage of Freydis
Author: Tamara Goranson
Publisher: One More Chapter
ISBN: 9780008455712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: One More Chapter
ISBN: 9780008455712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Flight of Anja (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 2)
Author: Tamara Goranson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008455724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
‘Once again, Goranson channels the epics of the past to take the reader on a journey filled with adventure, danger, and forbidden love ... I would highly recommend this book to fans of historical fiction, Viking tales, and mythology!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008455724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
‘Once again, Goranson channels the epics of the past to take the reader on a journey filled with adventure, danger, and forbidden love ... I would highly recommend this book to fans of historical fiction, Viking tales, and mythology!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review
The Oath of Bjorn (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 3)
Author: Tamara Goranson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008455740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 3
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008455740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 3
The Viking Discovery of America
Author: Helge Ingstad
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550811582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550811582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.
The Vinland Sagas
Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141906987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141906987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.
Meadowland
Author: Thomas C. Holt
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0748113541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. When the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time talking with two veterans, who have a remarkable story to tell; the Viking discovery of America.As he records the story, years later, he also considers its effect on the fourth member of the party; a young Norwegian guardsman who went on to become King Harald Hardradi, who died invading England in 1066 ...
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0748113541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. When the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time talking with two veterans, who have a remarkable story to tell; the Viking discovery of America.As he records the story, years later, he also considers its effect on the fourth member of the party; a young Norwegian guardsman who went on to become King Harald Hardradi, who died invading England in 1066 ...
The Viking Age
Author: Angus A. Somerville
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148757049X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings. The third edition has been reorganized into fifteen chapters. Many sources have been added, including material on gender and warrior women, and a completely new final chapter traces the continuing cultural influence of the Vikings to the present day. The use of visual material has been expanded, and updated maps illustrate historical developments throughout the Viking Age. The English translations of Norse texts, many of them new to this collection, are straightforward and easily accessible, while chapter introductions contextualize the readings.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148757049X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings. The third edition has been reorganized into fifteen chapters. Many sources have been added, including material on gender and warrior women, and a completely new final chapter traces the continuing cultural influence of the Vikings to the present day. The use of visual material has been expanded, and updated maps illustrate historical developments throughout the Viking Age. The English translations of Norse texts, many of them new to this collection, are straightforward and easily accessible, while chapter introductions contextualize the readings.
God's Daughter
Author: Heather Day Gilbert
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492880417
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the tenth century, when pagan holy women rule the Viking lands, Gudrid turns her back on her training as a seeress to embrace Christianity. Clinging to her faith, she joins her husband, Finn, on a voyage to North America. But even as Gudrid faces down murderous crewmen, raging sickness, and hostile natives, she realizes her greatest enemy is herself--and the secrets she hides might just tear her marriage apart"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492880417
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the tenth century, when pagan holy women rule the Viking lands, Gudrid turns her back on her training as a seeress to embrace Christianity. Clinging to her faith, she joins her husband, Finn, on a voyage to North America. But even as Gudrid faces down murderous crewmen, raging sickness, and hostile natives, she realizes her greatest enemy is herself--and the secrets she hides might just tear her marriage apart"--Page 4 of cover.
They Came On Viking Ships
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730444767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Can enemy warriors become your friends? A story of adventure in a new land When Vikings raid and destroy a small coastal village, Hekja and her dog, Snarf, are captured and taken to Greenland. In this harsh and cold land, Hekja becomes a thrall - a slave - to Freydis Eriksdottir, daughter of the infamous Erik the Red. Hekja's fiery determination earns her the respect of her mistress. But Hekja's journey was just the beginning, as she and Snarf and other colonists join their leader, Freydis, on a voyage to Vinland to establish a new settlement where more perilous adventures await them... AWARDS Shortlisted - Young People's History Prize, NSW Premier's History Awards (2006)
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730444767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Can enemy warriors become your friends? A story of adventure in a new land When Vikings raid and destroy a small coastal village, Hekja and her dog, Snarf, are captured and taken to Greenland. In this harsh and cold land, Hekja becomes a thrall - a slave - to Freydis Eriksdottir, daughter of the infamous Erik the Red. Hekja's fiery determination earns her the respect of her mistress. But Hekja's journey was just the beginning, as she and Snarf and other colonists join their leader, Freydis, on a voyage to Vinland to establish a new settlement where more perilous adventures await them... AWARDS Shortlisted - Young People's History Prize, NSW Premier's History Awards (2006)