- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: British Museum Press; New edition edition (10 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714128007
- ISBN-13: 978-0714128009
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 17 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 855,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Through translations of their surviving writings, the Vikings speak directly to the modern reader in this book, revealing much of their everyday feelings and concerns. The Vikings are shown as they saw themselves, portrayed in their own writings or in the reports of people who knew them closely. This book comprises of a series of translations from primary sources: runic inscriptions left behind by the Vikings, poems of their official skalds (literary works that entertained them), the few prose historical accounts that derive direct from the Vikings, and eyewitness reports of how the northern peoples lived. It defines the social values of the Viking Age and looks at the problems they encountered in discovering, populating and cultivating new lands, the difficulties of keeping law and order and the solutions they tried. This book also shows how the Vikings coped with famine and other natural disasters, travel and its perils, something of their popular culture, riddles, proverbs and aphorisms, and their sometimes irreverent approach to the supernatural, their gods and goddesses, magic and charms. In his introduction, Professor Page discusses the problems involved in using the surviving writings and looks at the information that is preserved solely in these primary sources.
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Anyone who has studied the Vikings or medieval Scandinavia will know that primary written evidence is often very scarce as the Vikings rarely wrote anything down. This book, which amasses a diverse amount of the primary or early written evidence that we do have, is therefore very useful as well as being highly interesting. The book is divided into sections on the home, religion and so on, mixing such diverse things as records from assemblies and Viking sayings. The simple things like this really bring the sometimes obscure daily life of Vikings to life and it makes it much more enjoyable to learn about them because the things in this book come directly from them. All in all, it is a rich and fascinating glimpse into Viking culture which reminds us that there was much more to them than horned helmets and huge broadswords.
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