The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings by Peter Sawyer (z-lib.org)

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The OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY of the .*? n r* ' *- at Edited tf / / / Were the Vikings, as an early description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or in the words of a Manx folksong, 'war-wolves keen in hungry quest', who lived and died by the sea and the sword? Or were they unusually successful merchants, extortionists, and pioneer explorers? This hook, by leading international scholars, considers the latest research…