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VIKINGS -Analysis of the "Vinland sagas".
Title: VIKINGS -Analysis of the "Vinland sagas".
Category: History / European History
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VIKINGS -Analysis of the "Vinland sagas".
"Barbarians...thrusting their swords through everything, taking pity on nothing. The destruction is universal... Like a whirlwind or a typhoon or a torrent or I know now what to say"; "... inhumanity"; "...barbarous tribe"; "...harshness of its manners and the savagery of its character"; "...not respecting female weakness, not pitying tender infants".
Above are a few of the terms used by the Constantinople patriarch Photius to describe Vikings and their actions; but similarly horrific descriptions of …showed first 75 words of 2736 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2736 total…such as sagas; it becomes clear how all too many foreign sources only give us a narrow, one sided view of a highly complex society, that of the Vikings.
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Logan, F. Donald The Vikings in History, (London, 1991)
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Roesdahl, Else The Vikings, (England, 1992)
Sawyer, Birgit and Peter Medieval Scandinavia, (USA, 1995)
Wilson, David M. The Vikings and their Origins,
(Great Britain, 1980)
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