Beyond the Northlands
- 344 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
A vibrant account that evokes the spirit of the Viking age in a thoroughly entertaining, yet historically sound, fashion. Philip Parker, BBC World Histories
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Libros
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough es una erudita en historia y literatura medieval cuyo trabajo se adentra en el rico tapiz de la cultura nórdica y su influencia perdurable. Su investigación a menudo la lleva a paisajes remotos y evocadores, desde los glaciares de Groenlandia hasta las antiguas ruinas de Roma, buscando desenterrar las historias incrustadas en estos lugares. Como reconocida "New Generation Thinker", posee una notable habilidad para traducir complejas investigaciones académicas en narrativas cautivadoras, dando vida al pasado para una audiencia más amplia. Su enfoque único combina una rigurosa investigación histórica con un espíritu de aventura, haciendo que la exploración de las tradiciones antiguas se sienta inmediata y relevante.
Beyond the northlands : Viking voyages and the Old Norse sagas
- 317 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.
