دانلود کتاب The Viking Saga
by Peter Brent
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عنوان فارسی: The Viking Saga |
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But as the decades turned, raiding changed to trade and conquest; Vikings began to settle, working land their fathers had devastated. They struggled for the mastery of England, they founded the Dukedom of Normandy, they laid the foundations for modern Russia. Exploring westward across the North Atlantic they colonized in turn the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and, at last and briefly, faraway Vinland on the American coast. Where once they had raided across the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Vikings now upheld Byzantine order, proud members of the Empire’s Varangian Guard. In Scandinavia, kingdoms arose, cemented by a faith new to the north - Christianity. And wherever they went, the Vikings left behind them their special legacy - a heritage of boisterous and fiercely defended freedom.
Peter Brent describes with a vivid and exciting immediacy the great Viking break-out, the voyages of plunder or discovery and the heroes who made them, the cruelty and bloodshed which was their accompaniment. In the process, he offers an illuminating glimpse of customs, beliefs and institutions which have left their mark on the Europe of today. The book is colourfully documented with a variety of maps and photographs.
8 pages of colour plates, 100 illustrations in black and white