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The Vikings maintain their grip on our thoughts, but their image is too often distorted by middle ages and modern misconception. It really is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also resolved peacefully and developed an enormous trading network. They journeyed far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships, not and then raid, but also to explore. Despite their fearsome reputation, the Vikings didn't wear horned helmets, and even the infamous berserkers were far from invincible. By dismantling the misconceptions, The Age of the Vikings allows the entire story of the period in middle ages history to find out. By discovering every major element of this exciting time, Anders Winroth captures the advancement and 100 % pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only points out the Viking attacks, but also talks about Viking endeavors in business, politics, discovery, and colonization, and discloses how Viking arts, books, and spiritual thought evolved with techniques unequaled in the others of Europe. He shows the way the Vikings seized on the boundless opportunities permitted by the invention of the longship, using it to endeavor to Europe for plunder, to start new trade routes, and also to settle in lands as faraway as Russia, Greenland, and the Byzantine Empire. Challenging the image of the Vikings that comes so easily to mind, Winroth argues that Viking chieftains were forget about violent than men like Charlemagne, who determined atrocities on a far greater level than the northern raiders. Drawing on an abundance of written, visible, and archaeological evidence, The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the sophisticated society and culture of the legendary seafarers.
