Free Download Martyn Whittock, Byron Wagner (Narrator), "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America"
English | ASIN: B0CVL9PRNM | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:00:00 | 193 MB
A vivid and illuminating new history-separate fact from fiction, myth from legend-exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.
Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have traveled far and wide, not least across the turbulent seas of our minds and imaginations.
The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary. For centuries medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, claimed that Vikings reached North America around the year 1000. This book explores that claim, separating fact from fiction and myth from mischief, to assess the enduring legacy of this claim in America. The search for "American Vikings" connects a vast range of different areas; from the latest archaeological evidence for their actual settlement in North America to the myth-making of nineteenth-century Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest; and from ancient adventurers to the political ideologies in the twenty-first century. It is a journey from the high seas of a millennium ago to the swirling waters and dark undercurrents of the online world of today.

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Free Download Vikings: The Most Badass Vikings in History By Patrick Auerbach
2016 | 60 Pages | ISBN: 1535435658 | EPUB | 1 MB
Vikings are known by numerous reputations in our modern culture. Some stories insist that they are similar to characters in comic books, others show them as drunk and horned cap wearing thugs. An entire genre of music even exists to honor these people, yet though we are all familiar with the word itself and at least one popular culture image, very few of us know much about who these people were, in reality and in history.The Vikings in this book are famous for their often violent exploits and plundering, but that is not the entire story. They are also famous for the way they shaped East Europe, North America, and Britain. Without the influence of the Vikings in ancient times, these places would not be what they are today. In fact, we have the Vikings to thank for a lot of what we enjoy in our modern world. You will learn all about that, and more, in this book.

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Free Download Sverrir Jakobsson, "Making of the Eastern Vikings: Rus' and Varangians in the Middle Ages "
English | ISBN: 2503606717 | 2024 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Historiography on the Vikings of the East - the Rus' and the Varangians - has been both multiform and varied, but it has been invariably focused on actual historical events, and the extent to which these are accurately reflected in written sources. In contrast, very little attention has been paid up to now to the narrators behind these medieval accounts, to their motives in writing, or to the context in which they were working. This volume aims to redress the balance by offering a re-examination of medieval sources on the Eastern Vikings and by highlighting ongoing 'debates' concerning the identities of the Rus' and the Varangians in the medieval period. The chapters gathered here compare and contrast sources emanating from different cultures - Byzantium, the Abbasid Caliphate and its successor states, the early kingdoms of the Rus', and the high medieval Scandinavian kingdoms - and examine what significance these sources have attached to the Rus' and the Varangians in different contexts. The result is a new understanding of how different cultures chose to define themselves in relation to one another, and a new perspective on the history of the Scandinavian peoples in the East.

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Free Download The Age of the Vikings by Anders Winroth
English | March 1, 2016 | ISBN: 0691169292 | 328 pages | PDF | 6.51 Mb
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.

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Free Download American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1639365354 | 272 pages | PDF | 42 Mb
A vivid and illuminating new history-separate fact from fiction, myth from legend-exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.

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Free Download Graeme Davis, Dan Calley (Narrator), "Vikings in America"
English | ASIN: B0CVJFR931 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:19:00 | 227 MB
When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonization of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic, and DNA evidence which supplements the historic account. For four centuries or more, from their first visits around AD 1000 to the eve of the Columbus voyages, the Vikings explored and settled thousands of miles of the coasts and rivers of North America.
From New York's Long Island to the Canadian High Arctic, the New World was a playground for Viking adventurers. And the name the Vikings gave to this New World-America.

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Free Download The Vikings: Raiders, Explorers And Seafaring Warriors (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868763878 | 2023 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Lance Hightower
Narrator: Jim D. Johnston

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Free Download Bill Williamson, Eric Thompson, "Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Vikings Stories Ever Told (Tales from the Team)"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1613212240 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 3.0 mb
Take a journey from the infant stages of football in Minnesota up through the Vikings four Super Bowl appearances in Bill Williamson and Eric Thompson's Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline. For more than fifty years the Vikings have been established as one of the premier teams in all of sports. Perhaps the most successful team to never win a Super Bowl, the Vikings have nevertheless harbored a rich tradition of winning football. Now fans of this Midwest powerhouse will relive all the history, all the passion, and all the tantalizingly close glory of Vikings football within these pages. Remember the bone-chilling days of old Metropolitan Stadium? Or the no-nonsense, in-your-face coaching style of Bud Grant? From Cris Carter to Fran Tarkenton, Randy Moss, and more, this newly revised edition of Tales from the Minnesota Vikings Sideline has it all!

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Free Download Katherine Holman, "Historical Dictionary of the Vikings (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras) "
English | ISBN: 0810848597 | 2003 | 404 pages | AZW3 | 734 KB
The Historical Dictionary of the Vikings traces Viking activity in Europe, North America, and Asia for over three centuries. During this period people from Scandinavia used their longships to launch lightning raids upon their European neighbors, to colonize new lands in the east and west, and to exchange Scandinavian furs for eastern wine and spices and Arab silver. The Viking age also saw significant changes at home in Scandinavia - kings extended their power, Norse paganism lost ground to christianity, and new towns and ports thrived as a result of increased contact with the wider world.

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Free Download The Magnificent Book of Treasures: Vikings
by Caldwell, Stella;Nobati, Eugenia;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1681889021 | 81 pages | True PDF | 116.03 MB

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