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1) Viking
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A history of the Vikings explains how these great explorers earned a reputation as fierce invaders, their ship construction techniques, and how Leif Erikson arrived in America centuries before Columbus.
2) Vikings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces Vikings, who were warriors that left their homes in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to attack towns and villages all over Europe, from 800 to 1100 A.D.
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Journey into a thrilling ancient world in this epic new series about history's bravest and most brutally fearsome warriors; Vikings. Ragnar, a would-be Viking chieftain, longs to fulfill his destiny as an explorer and conqueror, alongside his ambitious brother Rollo and loyal wife Lagertha. But as Ragnar leads daring raids in distant realms across the ocean, treacherous forces in his Norse homeland conspire against him.
4) The Northmen
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Series
Description
Examines the archaeological evidence of the history, civilization and culture of the prehistoric Northmen of Scandinavia.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Become an eyewitness to the world of Nordic raiders and traders and learn all about the culture and history of Vikings. This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour of the history and culture of these daring Norse adventurers. Children can learn all about the Vikings' incredible ships and conquests, as well as their intriguing culture, religions, and home life. Throughout the pages of this children's guide to Vikings, you can expect to find: ...
9) The Vikings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Describes the daily life and customs of the Vikings and examines their many roles as farmers, traders, explorers. raiders, colonizers, and mercenaries.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power meant little more than the ability to pillage and plunder, which they did to bolster their status at home. But as these Norse warriors left their strongholds to trade, raid, and settle across wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic, their violent and predatory culture left a unique imprint on medieval history. The twist that no...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The Viking Age--between 750 and 1050--saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology, their art and culture. From Björn Ironside, who led an expedition...
14) Picture Maker
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Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Captured by the fierce Algonquin, Picture Maker, a talented artist whose drawings foreshadow the future, escapes her captors and seeks refuge with the Inuit, in whose company she encounters a Norse hunter who could hold the key to the mystery of her birth.
17) The Vikings
Formats
Description
The saga of the loves and lusts of the fierce Norse raiders who pillaged Britain over a thousand years ago.
18) The 13th Warrior
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.
Description
"Celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. The book's contributors chart the spread of marauders and traders in Europe as well as the movement of farmers and explorers throughout the North Atlantic and into the New World"--Back cover.