Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [431]-444) e índice.

-- Part 1 - The Northern Peoples to AD 700: 1. From Beginnings to the Age of Migrations; 2: The Legendary History of the Swedes and the Danes -- Part 2 - The Viking Kingdoms to the Close of the Tenth Century:1. The Scandinavian Community, I. Diversity and Unity; 2. The Historical Traditions of Norway to 950; 3 Denmark to the Death of Gorm the Old; 4. Denmark and Norway from the Accession of Harald Bluetooth to the Death of Olaf Tryggvason -- Part 3 - The Viking Movement Overseas: 1: The Scandinavian Community, II: Aspects of Society; 2. Causes of the Viking Movement Overseas; 3: The Movement South and South-West to 954: the British Isles, the Frankish Empire, the Mediterranean; 4. The Movement East: The Baltic Lands, Russia, Byzantium; 5. The Movement West: Iceland, Greenland, America -- Part 4 - The Viking Age Ends: 1. The Scandinavian Community III: Culture and Image; 2. Svein Forkbeard, Saint Olaf, Knut the Great; 3. The Viking Kingdoms to the Death of Harald Hardradi, 1066

The subject of this book is the Viking realms, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, their civilization and culture, and their many sided achievements at home and abroad. A highly readable narrative follows the development of these Northern peoples--the Nordmenn--from their origins and the legendary pre-history to the military triumphs of Canute and the defeat of Harald Hardrádi at Stamford Bridge in 1066, which symbolically ended the Viking age. 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 rounded portrait of Viking civilization and vividly evoke the importance in their culture of religion, art, and seafaring

El tema de este libro son los reinos Vikingos, Dinamarca, Suecia y Noruega, su civilización y cultura, y sus muchos logros en el país y en el extranjero. Una narración altamente legible sigue el desarrollo de estos pueblos del norte - el Nordmenn - de sus orígenes y la prehistoria legendaria a los triunfos militares de Canute y la derrota de Harald Hardrádi en el puente de Stamford en 1066, que terminó simbólicamente la edad de Viking . El libro relata las hazañas de los vikingos en la guerra, el comercio y la colonización: el asalto a la cristiandad occidental; Las operaciones comerciales y militares a los mundos eslavo y musulmán ya Bizancio; Y los viajes occidentales del descubrimiento y del establecimiento a Groenlandia, a Islandia, ya América. Numerosas fotografías, mapas y dibujos contribuyen al retrato redondeado de Gwyn Jones de la civilización vikinga y evocan vívidamente la importancia en su cultura de la religión, el arte y la navegación