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Outbreak of the Viking Age
Dette er historien om årsakene til vikingtidens utbrudd. Torgrim Titlestad gir en stemme til de sagnomsuste krigerne som bidro til å utløse en av de mest kontroversielle epokene i eldre europeisk historie. Titlestad er professor, dr. philos, og en av landets fremste saga-kjennere. Omtalen er utarbeidet BS.
Viking Legacy
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Nordic Narratives of the Second World War
Written by leading Nordic historians, this analysis discusses postwar memory and war historiographies from the perspectives of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden vis-à-vis the Second World War. Focusing on the relationship between scholarly and public understandings of the war, this book presents the overarching themes that set apart the Nordic experience while remaining attentive to the distinctive characteristics of war time in each of the five different countries. A major contribution to the international debate on postwar memory, this fascinating account speaks to all those who have an interest in the modern European history.
The Year of the Warrior
GOD WILLS IT! It all started with a Viking raiWhen he is captured and forced into slavery, Aillil the Irishman must pretend to be a priest or die. Better to be a high-value priest than a low-value corpse, he thinks, and so it happens that a failed novitiate (he loved women too well) is taken up by Norway's first Christian lord, Erling Skjalgsson to bring the Word to his people. Ironically, though "Father"Aillil is as phony as a three-dollar psalm, he and he alone must convert a fiercely pagan people to the gentle teachings of Christ¾and they don't want to hear about it. Nor do their "gods," who are all too real, and all too liable to do something horrible to those disturbing their divine pe...
Russia and the Low Countries
"This bibliography contains everything that has been published in the West--except from Russia--about the relations between the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) and Russia--in every Western language"--P. [4] of cover.
Crown Whims and Farmers' Endurance
This book deals with Norwegian peasant and yeoman revolts in the absolutist kingdom of Denmark-Norway between ca. 1500 and 1800.
The Versatile Farmers of the North
This book deals with the largely forgotten and neglected role of the Norwegian yeomen during the constitutional work of 1814. Their political campaigning is related to their increasingly prominent economic position within Norwegian -- and European -- society in the Age of Democratic revolution. The extent to which the ideas of the Enlightenment reached the rural population in this part of Europe, is analyzed along with Nordic topographic issues in general, as well as the radical and libertarian constitutional drafts presented by the yeomen at Eidsvoll in 1814. The role of the new Swedish "revolutionary king", Charles John (Bernadotte) is also discussed in a new light, based on his revolutionary past and his break with Napoleon.
The Rise of Little Big Norway
"The Rise of Little Big Norway" explores the unlikely rise of Norway from peripherality to today’s global steward with an enviable work-life balance, influential oil fund and Arctic front-row seat. Drawing on wide-ranging source material, John Ross’s original approach combines astute observation, thoughtful analysis and a flowing essay style, leavened with the comparative insight that only a seasoned observer of the region can bring. The book examines the settings, histories and niche elements that lend Norway its distinctiveness and differentiate it from its Nordic neighbors. It gives special attention to the northern and Arctic dimensions of Norwegian life and elaborates a connecting thematic thread, the mobility that once took Vikings across the Atlantic in open boats and makes today’s Norwegians the most-traveled people on the planet. The result is a carefully crafted general study of Norway, a country long overlooked in favor of its Nordic neighbors but now a quiet force in its own right and a touchstone for twenty-first century issues ranging from identity politics to the Arctic melt. This book fills a major gap in the literature on Norway and the Nordic region.
Viking Legacy
More than marauders and bloodthirsty conquerors, the Vikings were builders of a civilization which influence may still be seen in the modern world. The Viking Age is arguably one of the most fascinating epochs in history, and in this book, a new narrative is presented based on Viking history as it is told in the Norse Sagas. Viking Legacy represents a new generation of books exploring the Viking Age. By integrating the Saga literature with other sources, a more complete picture emerges of this increasingly popular era, and a civilization that would change the course of history.
