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Laddar... Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (2020)av Neil S. Price
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. What a great book that covers the comprehensive history of Vikings. Some parts I'm not going to be were really dense. But some great information inside. There's bound to be something that will appeal to everyone. I appreciated that the author Neil Price took the time to explain that most knowledge we have of the Vikings came from their enemies like England and France. The author is an archeologist who has studied Vikings for twenty years and it’s easy to see he knows what he’s talking about. He does of course talk about Norse mythology and how that tied into their way of life as well and how brutal and savage the Vikings really well. ( ) What a great book that covers the comprehensive history of Vikings. Some parts I'm not going to be were really dense. But some great information inside. There's bound to be something that will appeal to everyone. I appreciated that the author Neil Price took the time to explain that most knowledge we have of the Vikings came from their enemies like England and France. The author is an archeologist who has studied Vikings for twenty years and it’s easy to see he knows what he’s talking about. He does of course talk about Norse mythology and how that tied into their way of life as well and how brutal and savage the Vikings really well. I really enjoyed how the author used myth to start and end this book. That was very well done. The rest of the book is certainly comprehensive, which it may have to be for the subject, but read at times like a textbook and bored me. I suppose you could say it was filled with too much information for my tastes. I will say that I did enjoy the author’s dry wit in places and some of the stories he related were interesting. Yet while I’m glad I read this to learn more about the Vikings than I ever cared to, I doubt I’ll ever read this again. I really enjoyed how the author used myth to start and end this book. That was very well done. The rest of the book is certainly comprehensive, which it may have to be for the subject, but read at times like a textbook and bored me. I suppose you could say it was filled with too much information for my tastes. I will say that I did enjoy the author’s dry wit in places and some of the stories he related were interesting. Yet while I’m glad I read this to learn more about the Vikings than I ever cared to, I doubt I’ll ever read this again. La época vikinga fue testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de los pueblos escandinavos. Comerciantes, piratas, exploradores y colonizadores vikingos viajaron desde América del Norte hasta las estepas asiáticas y navegaron por todos los mares. Pero, durante siglos, estos pueblos se nos han presentado a través de una óptica distorsionada para satisfacer los gustos de cronistas medievales, dramaturgos isabelinos, potencias imperialistas y muchos otros. En Vikingos: la historia definitiva de los pueblos del norte, el prestigioso historiador Neil Price presenta por primera vez un retrato fidedigno de los vikingos basado en las últimas investigaciones y descubrimientos arqueológicos. En un épico recorrido que abarca desde la caída del Imperio romano al siglo xii, Price rastrea el origen de los vikingos, nos descubre su cultura y cosmología, y explica qué los impulsó a lanzarse a los saqueos que los hicieron temidos en toda Europa. Price nos muestra a los vikingos tal y como ellos mismos se veían. En sus páginas cobra vida un pueblo totalmente distinto a nosotros, glorioso pero terrible, nacido del invierno, la guerra y el comercio, sangriento a la vez que exquisito. Vikingos es una historia monumental sobre uno de los periodos más fascinantes de la historia que cambió para siempre el rumbo del continente Europeo. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"The Viking Age--between 750 and 1050--saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology, their art and culture. From Björn Ironside, who led an expedition to sack Rome, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Price shows us the real Vikings, not the caricatures they've become in popular culture and history"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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