{"product_id":"the-viking-age-9781487570477","title":"The Viking Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho were the Vikings, and do they deserve their unsavoury reputation? Through over 100 primary source documents, this fascinating collection weighs the cultural importance and lasting influence of the Vikings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The third edition of [The Viking Age] is a substantial enlargement and update.\" -- D.J. Shepherd * \u003cem\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    Acknowledgments    Introduction    Chapter One: The Scandinavian Homelands    1. The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan  2. A Description of the Islands of the North    Chapter Two: Scandinavian Society   3. The Lay of Rig (Rígsþula)  4. Politics in Harald Finehair’s Norway  5. Hoskuld Buys a Slave 6. Slave Revolts (a) Hjorleif's Slaves Revolt (b) A Slave Revolt in Egil's Saga 7. How the Hersir Erling Treated His Slaves    Chapter Three: Early Religion and Belief   8. The Norse Creation-Myth  9. Ragnarok: The Doom of the Gods   10. Odin Welcomes Eirik Bloodax to Valhalla  11. Odin Hangs on Yggdrasil  12. Odin and Human Sacrifice  (a) The Death of King Vikar  (b) The Deaths of Domaldi and Olaf Tretelgja  13. Sigurd, the Earl of Lade, Sacrifices to the Gods 14. The Temple at Uppsala  15. A Temple in Iceland 16. Norse Funeral Practices  (a) Snorri’s History of Burial Practices  (b) Odin Orders Cremation and Becomes a God (c) The Death of Baldur the Good  (d) Gunnar’s Burial Mound 17. The Living Dead  (a) Gunnar’s Posthumous Poem  (b) Grettir’s Fight with Glam   Chapter Four: Gender in the Viking Age    18. Manly Men (a) Gunnar Weeps (b) The Death of Gunnar (c) Egil and Armod 19. Unmanly Men (a) Deadly Insults from Grágás (b) A Flyting between Sinfjotli and Gudmund (c) Egil in Old Age 20. Strong Women (a) Unn the Deep-Minded Takes Control of Her Life (b) The Goading of Hildigunn (c) The Prowess of Freydis, Daughter of Eirik the Red 21. Mothers and Sons (a) Gudrun Drives Her Sons to Take Revenge (b) Gudrun Osvifrsdottir's Incitement of Her Sons 22. Making and Breaking Marriages (a) Betrothals from the Sagas (i) The Betrothal of Olaf Hoskuldsson (ii) How Unn Mordsdottir Found Herself Betrothed (b) Divorces from the Sagas (i) How Gudrun Divorced Thorvald (ii) Vigdis Divorces Thord Goddi 23. Women's Work (a) Housework in Laxdale Saga (b) Magical Women (i) The Greenland Prophetess (ii) A Phallic Ritual: Passing the Penis 24. Men and Women Behaving Badly (a) Queen Gunnhild Has Her Way with Hrut (b) Gisli Sursson Defends the Family Honor (c) On the Penalties for Poetry (d) Hallfred the Troublesome Poet and Kolfinna (e) Grettir the Strong Puts a Woman in Her Place 25. Same-Sex Encounters (a) Penitential of Saint Thorlak (b) Civil Penalties in Early Norwegian Law (c) Njal Gives a Garment to Flosi (d) King Harold Formsson and the Land-Spirits (e) Gisli Sursson Fights Skeggi the Berserk 26. Gender Instability: Trans-Gender and Gender-Shifting (a) From Gulathing Law: On Seriously Insulting Speech (b) Odin's Wisdom and Arts (c) From Loki's Flyting (Lokasenna) (d) Loki and Svadilfari: loki's Adventure as a Mare 27. Cross-Dressing (a) Thor as a Bride (b) How Aud Dealt wih Her Humiliating Divorce    Chapter Five: Viking Warriors and Their Weapons    28. The Accomplishments of a Viking Warrior (a) Earl Rognvald Kali on Being a Gentleman (b) Gunnar Hamundarson, the Ideal Warrior (c) Olaf Tryggvason, King of Norway 29. Warrior Women (a) A Warrior Woman (b) The Waking of Angantýr (The Lay of Hervor, Hervarakviða) 30. Valkyries (a) Helgi and Sigrun I (b) Helgi and Sigrun II (c) Brynhild's Helride 31. Berserkers and the Berserk Rage (a) Odin’s Berserks (b) Egil Skallagrimsson Fights a Berserk 32. Weapons (a) King Magnus Barelegs Dresses to Kill  (b) The Sword Skofnung  (i) Hrolf Kraki and Skofnung (ii) Skeggi and Skofnung (iii) Kormak and Skofnung (iv) Thorkel Eyolfsson and Skofnung (v) Gellir Thorkelsson and Skofnung (c) Saint Olaf’s Sword, Hneitir    Chapter Six: Fjord-Serpents: Viking Ships    33. King Olaf Tryggvason Builds the Long Serpent  34. Harald Sigurdarson’s Splendid Ship 35. Animal Heads on the Prows of Ships 36. A Sea-Battles from the Sagas: Olaf Tryggvason at the Battle of Svold   Chapter Seven: “Sudden and Unforeseen Attacks of Northmen”   37. On the Causes of the Viking Expansion  38. Viking Raids on England, 789–850\/1  39. Alcuin’s Letter to King Athelred, 793  40. An English Gospel Book Ransomed from the Vikings  41. Viking Raids on Ireland, 795–842  42. The Martyrdom of Blathmac, 825  43. The Life of Saint Findan  44. Irish Resistance to the Norsemen  45. Franks and Vikings, 800–829  46. The Northmen in France, 843–865   47. An Account of the Siege of Paris, 885–886  48. Vikings in the Iberian Peninsula  (a) Ibn al-Kutia. Year 230 (17 September 844 - 1 October 845) (b) Ibn Adhari. Year 229 (30 September 843 - 17 September 844)   Chapter Eight: “The Heathens Stayed”: From Raiding To Settlement    49. Viking Activities in England, 851–900  50. The Martyrdom of Saint Edmund 51. The Vikings in Ireland, 845–917  52. Ketil Flatnose and His Descendants in the Hebrides  53. Earl Sigurd and the Establishment of the Earldom of Orkney  54. Runic Inscriptions from Maes Howe, Mainland, Orkney  55. Runic Inscriptions from the Isle of Man  56. Rollo Obtains Normandy from the King of the Franks    Chapter Nine: Austrveg: The Viking Road To The East    57. The Ru¯s  58. The Ru¯s Attack Constantinople 59. On the Arrival of the Varangians 60. A Muslim Diplomat Meets Ru¯ s Merchants on the Volga River  61. River Routes to Constantinople  62. A Norwegian Soldier of Fortune in the East  63. Ru¯ s Expeditions to the Middle East  64. The Yngvar Runestones    Chapter Ten: Into the Western Ocean: The Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland    65. The Islands in the Northern Ocean, c. 825  66. Sailing Directions and Distances in the North Atlantic  67. The Western Ocean  68. Adam of Bremen on Iceland  69. Icelandic Accounts of the Discovery and Settlement of Iceland  (a) The Book of the Icelanders  (b) The Book of Settlements  70. Skallagrim’s Land-Take in Iceland 71. The Settlement of Greenland  (a) The Book of the Icelanders  (b) The Book of Settlements  72. The King’s Mirror on Greenland  73. Adam of Bremen on Vinland  74. The Norse Discovery of Vinland  75. Thorfin Karlsefni in Vinland    Chapter Eleven: Viking Life and Death    76. Advice for Sailors and Merchants  77. Svein Asleifarson’s Viking Life  78. Children  (a) Young Grettir Helps around the Farm  (b) Children Mimic Adults (c) The Child is Mother of the Woman  (d) Young Egil Plays for Keeps  79. Games and Entertainment  (a) A Horse-fight from Njal’s Saga  (b) Skallagrim's Rough Play  (c) Ball Games and Scraper-Games at Sand from Hord's Saga  (d) Entertainment at a Wedding Feast at Reykjaholar from The Saga of Thorgils and Haflidi (e ) Mock Lawsuits from The Saga of the People of Ljosavatn  80. The Jomsvikings Meet Their End   81. The Burning of Njal    Chapter Twelve: From Odin to Christ    82. Early Missions to the North: The Life of Saint Anskar  83. The Conversion of the Danes under Harald Bluetooth  84. Olaf Tryggvason and the Conversion of Norway  85. A Poet Abandons the Old Gods 86. The Christianization of Norway under Saint Olaf  87. The Conversion of the Icelanders 88. The Conversion of Greenland  89. The Conversion of Orkney  90. Christianity in Sweden  91. Christianity and the Church in Norway 92. The Travels of King Sigurd, Jerusalem-Farer  93. The Journey of Abbot Nikolas Bergsson from Iceland to Jerusalem    Chapter Thirteen: State-Building at Home and Abroad    94. Harald Finehair and the Unification of Norway  95. Denmark: The Jelling Stone  96. State-Making in Denmark: Unification and Expansion  97. The Martyrdom of Alfeah (Saint Alphege)  98. Knut the Great and the North Sea Empire 99. The England Runestones  100. The Earldom of Orkney at Its Zenith    Chapter Fourteen: The End of the Viking Age    101. The Battle of Clontarf, 1014  102. The Battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066  103. The Battle of Largs, 1263   Chapter Fifteen: Reawakening Angantýr, or Viking Revivals    104. The First Revival (a) Snorri Sturlson (1179-1241) and Norse Poetics (b) Saxo Grammaticus and Icelandic Sources 105. Romantic Vikings (a) The Fatal Sisters: An Ode, from the Norse Tongue (b) The Vegtam's (Odin's) Kvitha (poem); or The Descent of Odin: An Ode, from the Norse Tongue 106. Operatic Vikings: Richard Wagner (1818-1883), from Das Rheingold, Scene Two 107. Aryan Anthropology: Vikings in Politics (a) Halfdan Bryn: Methodology (b) Hans F.K. Günther on Nordic Man (c) Alfred Rosenberg: Creative Men and Beautiful, Motherly Women 108. The Gods Reborn (a) Carl Jung: \"Wotanism\" (b) Odin Lives (c) Odinism in America (d) Versions of Ásatrú (i) The Icelandic Forn Sed Norge \/ The Society of the Ancient Faith in Norway 109. Plundering the Vikings, from The Irish Times 110. The Vikings in the Courtroom of History: Terrorists, Tourists, Others (a) Savage Warriors (b) Piracy and Commerce (c) Intruders of a Recognizable Type? (d) Revisiting the Revisionists (e) The Viking Diaspora   Epilogue    111. 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