Die Wikinger

by Gareth Williams (Editor), Peter Pentz (Editor), Matthias Wemhoff (Editor)

Furchterregende Krieger und Eroberer, welterfahrene Seefahrer, Handelsleute, Bauern und hoch spezialisierte Handwerker – sie alle prägen unser Bild der Wikinger. Vom 9. bis zum 11. Jahrhundert dominierten sie den Nord- und Ostseeraum. Im Zentrum der Publikation, die sich den Themenkomplexen maritime Kultur, militärische Expansion sowie Glauben widmet, steht das größte bekannte Kriegsschiff der Wikinger mit einer Länge von 37 Metern. Die Wikinger reisten nach Russland und bis ins Byzantinische Reich, sie gründeten Siedlungen an den Küsten Grönlands und Nordamerikas. Skandinavier, Briten und Iren sehen die Wurzeln ihrer Nationen in der Wikingerzeit. Ohne das Wikingerschiff wäre diese Expansion nicht möglich gewesen. 1997 wurde das größte überlieferte Schiff »Roskilde 6« entdeckt. Dieser spektakuläre Fund sowie unzählige andere Objekte geben Aufschluss über die weitreichenden geografischen Kontakte der Seefahrer. Ein internationales Forscherteam präsentiert die neuen Erkenntnisse zu den Themenkomplexen maritime Kultur, militärische Expansion sowie Glauben und Alltagskultur.

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Genres: History, Nonfiction, Historical, British Literature, Art, Archaeology

288 pages, Hardcover

First published February 10, 2014

Reviews

[Nic · Rating 4 out of 5]

The is maybe my new favorite use of the "on a boooat" shelf.

Highly informative, and with great photos! One of my favorite images is one that demonstrates the blending of cultures going on during the Viking Age. It's a soapstone mold used to cast inexpensive metal charms for the masses. It has molds to make Christian crosses and Thor's hammer charms, both carved into the same rock. Here's a photo of it: http://norse-mythology.org/wp-content...

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jammed with facts and inclining to scholarly text, this is a good book to browse through for information on the Vikings. The illustrations (all pictures of goods found in various archeological sites) are worth the entire text.

I got ahold of this book because, for reasons I don't remember, I started a jag on Vikings. Because I heard from an article by a British Viking specialist that the TV series The Vikings was extremely well done as to the details of Viking life, I decided to try it out. I'm hooked, but as much by watching the clothing, the cooking/eating implements, hairstyles, boat details, etc., as I am by the plot.

So it was fascinating to read this book and actually see that the series is well done. Down to the small details. Seeing the recovered barrel that was probably used for social drinking - filled with ale and set in the street for celebrations - brought back the scene during a celebration where the people are doing just that. The decorations used on drinking horns - here detached from the horns as artefacts - were there on the horns in the series. And much more.

If you are interested in the Vikings, this won't be the greatest book to start with because the text is rather dense. But the illustrations start bringing the Vikings into your home and your life.

[Scott Frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands-down, one of the best books on Vikings out there. Incredible coverage of a wide range of aspects of viking culture: trade, warfare, religion, exploration. It's particularly good as talking about how they interacted with out peoples/cultures in their travels. And of course, since it originally was a companion book to a museum exhibition, it has an incredible series of photos of a vast array of viking artifacts (presumably, most were in the exhibit); I'm not sure I've ever seen such an excellent and prodigious series of images of viking objects, again of all kinds - magical amulets, trade weights, axes and swords...anything you can imagine. Highly recommended.

[Liz Chapman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave this book four stars because the photos of the artefacts are very good and there are good artistic impressions of how the burial chamber might have looked and the Anglo Saxons dragging the funeral boat to its final resting place. Angela Care Evans has compiled a similar book on Sutton Hoo in 1986 which has far more information and covers restoration and the Anglo Saxons at that time. The photos are in black and white mostly but the discovery and history of excavations is good.

[Anne Marie Carey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've never read a book like this cover to cover - I would more typically just flip through, look at pictures and read a little hear and there at parts that look interesting - also my style when walking through museums and galleries in person, but I took a 10 pages a day approach to get through all the content. Next up - digging into some Icelandic sagas.

[Joe Groarke · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book which describes numerous facets of viking life and mythology combined with some amazing images of archaeological finds relating to all aspects of viking life. A must read for anyone keen on the period.

[Adelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is like walking through a museum. Nice high-res images and broad descriptions of Viking culture. I didn't read it cover to cover and instead flipped through a couple pages every day and read the text on topics that were interesting to me. Great table book.

[Libby King · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice companion to the Viking Legends Exhibit. Provides additional information on the artifacts on display and is a good educational tool for children and adults alike.

[Risto Pyykkö · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very mixed bag. Brilliantly illustrated; some parts excellent -- especially the chapter of belief and ritual -- others bizarrely out of date, peddling long-disproved Romantic notions of kings and warriors, and showing scant interest in or even knowledge of the latest Scandinavian research. Make that research since the nineteen-sixties.

[Sarah - All The Book Blog Names Are Taken · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very beautifully illustrated, but a bit dry in some chapters. Still, a fairly thorough history of the Vikings, as much as we can know anyway, considering they were not a society that put ink to paper to record their history.

[Deanna Gardner · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. 500 page book

Interesting read. Very informative on the Viking culture.

[Jeff Pedersen · Rating 5 out of 5]

so far one of the most informative books on vikings that i have read. it wasn't dry and it was nice to be showed an example of what they were talking about.

[Riversue · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. The illustrations are beautiful and the text is written in an easy for laypeople style.