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.
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.
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.
The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skill as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the West and as far a…
Vikings
Nés d'une lointaine tradition orale, les textes de l'Edda poétique, traduits ici dans leur intégralité, constituent, avec les autres textes scandinaves réunis dans cet ouvrage, un pan capital de notre patrimoine indo-européen. A plus d'un millénaire de distance, ils nous permett…
Slavery in Europe during antiquity and the first millennium -- Scandinavian slavery -- Where did the slaves come from? -- Thralls in Old Norse poetry and sagas -- Thralls in runic inscriptions -- Terms for thralls and their meanings -- How were thralls used? -- Evidence for thra…
"Thraldom, the old Scandinavian word for slavery, is an elusive phenomenon characterized by different conditions of dependencies and with fluid transitions between being free and unfree; a person could be at once socially respected but still unfree; you could voluntarily go into…
"Thraldom, the old Scandinavian word for slavery, is an elusive phenomenon characterized by different conditions of dependencies and with fluid transitions between being free and unfree; a person could be at once socially respected but still unfree; you could voluntarily go into…
"Thraldom, the old Scandinavian word for slavery, is an elusive phenomenon characterized by different conditions of dependencies and with fluid transitions between being free and unfree; a person could be at once socially respected but still unfree; you could voluntarily go into…
Demonios del norte : las expediciones Vikingas
by Canales, Carlos, Rey, Miguel del
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Si partimos de que el término drakar lo inventó en el año 1843, en plena marea romántica, el francés Auguste Jal, o que los cascos vikingos jamás llevaron cuernos, puede sorprendernos lo poco quen sabemos de las características culturales, religiosas y militares de una civilizac…