Viking Poetry of Love and War (Häftad)
avJudith Jesch
ISBN: 9780714128306 - UTGIVEN: 2013-03The Vikings are not often thought of as poets, though they came from a culture that valued poetry highly and rewarded poets handsomely. There is evidence for the kinds of poetry favoured by the Vikings from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, in oral tradition, in runes and in medieval manuscripts[...]
Women in the Viking Age (Häftad)
avJudith Jesch
ISBN: 9780851153605 - UTGIVEN: 199802"Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating." - "Guardian". This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch[...]
Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse (Inbunden)
avJudith Jesch
ISBN: 9780851158266 - UTGIVEN: 2008-02A critical survey of the vocabulary of Viking ships and their crews, of fleets and sailing and battles at sea, based on the runic and skaldic evidence from c.950-1100, and studied within the context of Viking activity in the period.[...]
The Viking Diaspora (Pocket)
avJudith Jesch
ISBN: 9781138020795 - UTGIVEN: 2015-06The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of 'diaspora'. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in[...]
