The Norsemen in the Viking Age

This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived.
# Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories.
# Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples.
# Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.