Ebook {Epub PDF} A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones

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Buy The Vikings First Edition by Jones, Gwyn (ISBN:) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The book recounts the Vikings' exploits in war, trade, and colonization: the assault on Western Christendom; the trading and military ventures to the Slav and Muslim worlds and to Byzantium; and the western voyages of discovery and settlement to Greenland, Iceland, and America. Numerous photographs, maps, and drawings contribute to Gwyn Jones's. The Vikings launched their first British raid at Lindifarne Abbey in but to start the story here would mean bypassing centuries of Scandinavian history. Gwyn Jones's chronicle begins 12, years prior, when the ancient clans of Sweden, Denmark and Norway hunted, tracked and fished for survival, honing their boat-building and marksmanship.

For me, Gwyn Jones's 'History of the Vikings' is, quite simply, far and away the best single-volume work on this subject in the English language. It first appeared back in (I first read it in the early s), but has been repeatedly updated in the light of new scholarship and, unlike many works of that vintage, still reads as freshly as when it was first published. Gwynn Jones traces the origins of the various viking communities and their settlements, with the Danes making inroads into England and France, the Norwegians into North England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and America, and the Swedes into Russia. The book recounts the Vikings' exploits in war, trade, and colonization: the assault on Western.