Author: Sir Henry Hoyle HoworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Irish Monks and the Norsemen
Author: Sir Henry Hoyle HoworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Story of Norsemen
Author: AnonymousPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 3170
Book Description
This meticulously edited DigiCat publication is dedicated to the lost but not forgotten world of the ferocious Norsemen. Norse Mythology: The Beginning Odin Frigga Thor Tyr Bragi Idun Niörd Frey Freya Uller Forseti Heimdall Hermod Vidar Vali The Norns The Valkyrs Hel Ægir Balder Loki The Giants The Dwarfs The Elves The Sigurd Saga The Story of Frithiof The Twilight of the Gods Greek and Northern Mythologies History of the Vikings: Causes of the Viking Movement The Viking Movement Down to the Middle of the 9th Century The Vikings in England to the Death of Harthacnut The Vikings in the Frankish Empire to the Founding of Normandy (911) The Vikings in Ireland to the Battle of Clontarf (1014) The Vikings in the Orkneys, Scotland, the Western Islands and Man The Vikings in Baltic Lands and Russia Viking Civilisation Scandinavian Influence in the Orkneys, Shetlands, the Western Islands and Man Scandinavian Influence in Ireland Scandinavian Influence in England Scandinavian Influence in the Empire and Iceland Eddas & Sagas: The Elder Eddas of Saemund The Younger Eddas of Sturleson Norse Sagas Kings' Sagas Sagas of Icelanders Legendary Sagas Norse Ballads: The Faroese Ballad of Nornagest The Faroese Ballad of Hjalmar and Angantyr The Danish Ballad of Angelfyr and Helmer The Faroese Ballad of Arngrim's Sons The Faroese Riddle Ballad The Shetland Ballad of Hildina
True Myth
Author: Nashid Al-AminPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466960043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Why is it that encyclopedias assert the Vikings, or Norsemen, landed in parts of North America, yet the Vikings have never been credited with its discovery? Historians bestow this honor on Christopher Columbus, who ventured here five hundred years after the Vikings, having never set foot on the continent! True Myth: Black Vikings of the Middle Ages takes the reader where he or she has never been before. We have always been told that Vikings, or Norsemen, were tall, blond, white and blue-eyedan image that has been presented to us in books and films. Now comes a book that challenges this centuries-old assertion, presenting evidence that these vaunted warriors were not the people popular historians have told us they were. The author presents evidence that white-skinned peoples in England, Ireland, and Wales referred to Vikings as black pagans and black devils. The extent of their dominance in Europe is examinedin fact, the author presents a reassessment of Europe that some readers will find difficult to believe, beginning with mans migrations into the continent and examining a number of black-skinned peoples who called Europe home from very ancient times almost to the present. The reader has never read a book like thisfilled with quotations from noted historians as well as from several Icelandic sagasthat will take the reader on a journey he or she has never imagined! A more accurate picture of Europe has never been presented before. The writer revisits the last ice age, presents evidence of the heavy presence of blacks in ancient Europe, and revisits ancient Greece, Rome, and areas of Asia, discussing the presence of black-skinned peoples in them before arriving in Viking-age Scandinavia when Norsemen embarked on a three-century-long assault on the continent and began migrating to Iceland and other areas of North America. Once the reader has completed True Myth: Black Vikings of the Middle Ages, he or she will have to question what he or she has been taught, historians once thought to be trustworthy, and the notion that the races were strictly divided and had never intermingled. There has never been a truer picture of Europe written, and the reader now has the opportunity to embark on the most thrilling journey he or she will ever take.
The Monk and The Viking
Author: Athelstan KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
"Snoring on the bed was the biggest man Floki had ever seen. Both in height and in girth. In the lamplight, the youth's black curls shone and his skin glowed. It was as if light radiated from his flesh. It was the man from his dreams! Floki wanted nothing more than to touch him. What was someone this beautiful doing somewhere so isolated?"9th Century Ireland and Norway. One stormy night, their worlds collide...When the Vikings arrive at the little Irish monastery, they are ordered to kill any monk they see and take their golden treasures. One monk, Brother Aiden, manages to sleep through the raid. One Viking, Floki, stumbles across him, snoring in his cell.Captivated with the sleeping monk, Floki convinces his elder brother, Harald, to let him take Brother Aiden back to Norway as his thrall. Brother Aiden no choice but to go. While he's grateful that these Viking raiders have spared his life, Brother Aiden is terrified. Eventually, Floki's kindness wins him over. However, Harald isn't happy with the love blossoming between the two men...Filled with less than chaste cuddles, handsome monks and Vikings, and concerns regarding saving a heathen soul, this M/M romance is intended for mature readers only.Storms of Wrath:9th Century Norway and Ireland.Several months ago Floki was part of a raid that slaughtered an Irish monastery. During that raid, he stumbled across a beautiful sleeping monk. Determined to rescue him from the other Vikings, he took Brother Aiden as his thrall. Under Floki's protection, their love bloomed. They were discovered by Floki's older brother and the two lovers fled. Now with nowhere left to go, they return to Ireland in hopes of finding Brother Aiden's long lost mother. On the way, their longship is destroyed by a storm. Brother Aiden washes up on the beach and discovers not all of the monks are dead. Some survived the raid. And the injured monks are furious at Brother Aiden's betrayal. Floki and Brother Aiden's love survived thralldom and a cruel elder brother. Can it survive the wrath of the church?Filled with less than chaste cuddles, handsome monks and Vikings, and vengeful priests, this M/M romance is intended for mature readers only.
The Vikings
Author: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Author: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"Transactions and publications of the Royal Historical Society" in each vol., ser. 4, v. 18-26.
Northmen
Author: John HaywoodPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250106141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
An authoritative volume that places the Vikings in their wider geographical and historical context.
The Vikings
Author: Allen MawerTransactions Of The Royal-Historical Society
Author: Charles RogersRediscovering Vinland
Author: III Fred N. BrownPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595436803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For over 100 years, people have debated where Vinland is located. This book describes what sagas said, where Vikings landed, what interaction they had with Natives, and what legacy they left Indians and early European colonists. Fred Brown uses 33 years of studying Viking accounts of journeys to America, genetic information, archaeological evidence, Old Norse language remnants, and sailing experience to pinpoint yet another Viking incursion in New England. His detective work to find Vinland is brilliant and masterful. "While you and I play golf, Fred Brown spends his off-hours researching our past. After reading about possible areas visited by the Vikings and descriptions of America in Viking legends, in 1976 Fred ventured out by boat using Viking descriptions and archaeological finds in that theorized area. He investigated documents from English settlers in the 1600s about the light-skinned Indians, metal and smelting use by early Indians, odd linguistic similarities to northwestern Europeans, and a peculiar resistance to tuberculosis among Indians, genetically common to Europeans. He concluded, and is not the only researcher to do so, that the Narragansett and Wampanoag Indians of the region encountered by early English settlers were, in fact, descendants of mixed Indian/Viking populations." -Editor, Diane Holloway, Ph.D. .