Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S. Ólaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other Western nations upon the Scandinavians in their native lands. The results of the conversion to Christianity are also examined. The book studies Scandinavian civilization as a part of European civilization, rather than an isolated phenomenon.
1.Archaeology and the Classical Authorities
2. The Runes and the Old
Norse Language
3. Heroes of Sweden
4. Heroes of Denmark
6. The Viking Wars of
the Ninth Century
7. The Age of S. Anskar
8. Denmark in the Tenth Century
9.
The Discovery of Iceland and the Faeroe Islands
10. The Civilization of the
Icelandic Settlement
11. Norway under Harald Finehair
12. The Sons of Harald
and Eirík
13. Ólaf Tryggvason
14. The Age of S. Ólaf
15. Scaldic Poetry and
History
16. The First Icelandic Historians.
G. TurvillePetre (19081978) was Vigfusson Reader in Ancient Icelandic Liteature and Antiquities in the University of Oxford.
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