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The Vikings . E-book. Formato Mobipocket
Allen Mawer
edizioni PubMe collana , 2016
The term 'Viking' is derived from the Old Norse vík, a bay, and means 'one who haunts a bay, creek or fjord.' In the 9th and 10th centuries it came to be used more especially of those warriors who left their homes in Scandinavia and made raids on the chief European countries. This is the narrow,...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XII: The Viking Invasions, the Kingdom of England, and the Western Caliphate. E-book. Formato Mobipocket
Allen Mawer
edizioni Perennial Press collana , 2018
THE term Viking is a derivative of the Old Norse Vik, a creek, bay or fiord, and means one who haunts such an opening and uses it as a base whence raids may be made on the surrounding country. The word is now commonly applied to those Norsemen, Danes and Swedes who harried Europe from the eighth to the eleventh centuries,...