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Brown, Nancy Marie Harl, Kenneth W. Haywood, John Jarman, Cat Oliver, Neil Stone, George W.Summary: Vikings: the real warriors. "Discover exciting new insights as historian Neil Oliver digs for clues. You'll travel to archaeological sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Norsemen launch expeditions and raids. Watch in amazement as the warriors settle Britain, Iceland and Greenland and transform themselves from illiterate pagans into Christian farmers, statesmen and kings--all in less than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VIKSummary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 VIKCall number: DVD 948.022 VIK
Oliver, Neil
Summary: Uncovers new information about the Vikings, describing where they originated, how they lived, and what drove their thirst for exploration, traveling as far as America and Baghdad over one thousand years ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 OLIHarl, Kenneth W.
Summary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 948.022 HAR PART 1Call number: CD 948.022 HAR PART 2
Call number: CD 948.022 HAR PART 3
Stone, George W.
Contents: Greatness for eternity : a time of Gods and heroes -- The Celts : mystical conquerors of ancient Europe -- The Vikings : raiders and traders of the North Seas -- Clontarf : the great battle for Ireland's unity -- Immortality achieved : the legacy of the Celts and Vikings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 936 STOHaywood, John
Summary: In 800, the Scandinavians were barbarians in longships bent only on plunder and rapine. But as these Norse warriors left their northern strongholds to trade, raid, and settle across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic, their violent and predatory culture left a unique imprint on medieval history. So much so that, by 1200, the Viking homelands had become an integral part of Latin...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948 HAYBrown, Nancy Marie
Summary: "In the tradition of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors. In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that aViking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Travel from Norway to Newfoundland, just as the seafaring warriors did in 1,000 A.D., to get a glimpse of the Vikings' world in the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WILJarman, Cat
Summary: An acclaimed bioarchaeologist traces the path of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, explaining that the Vikings' route may have been far more varied than previously known.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022