History - European

London: Penguin Books, 2001. (xxi) 448 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with maps and drawings. The cover features The Lewis Chessmen from the British Museum. The Chapters are: An Immigrant Society: Language and the Term Viking; Leadership; Mord the Fiddle: A Leader and the Law; The Sagas: An Ethnography of Medieval Iceland; Resources and Subsistence: Life on a Northern Island; Turf Housing; Curdled Milk and Calamities: An Inward-looking Farming Society; Provisions, Subsistence Strategies and Population; Bad Year Economics: Difficulties of Life in the North Atlantic; A Devolving and Evolving Social Order: Ranking, Hierarchy and Wealth; Complex Culture and Simple Economy; Privatization of Power in the Tenth Century; A Proto-democratic Community; Icelandic Feud: Conflict Management; The Founding of a New Society and the Historical Sources: The Effect of Emigrating from Europe; Land Taking and Establishing Order; Dating the Settlement: Volcanic Ash Layers; Closing the Frontier and Establishing Governing Principles; Written Sources: The Book of Settlements and The Book of Icelanders; Limitations on a Chieftain's Ambitions and Strategies of Feud and Law: Eyrbyggja Saga; Arnkel's Quest for Wealth and Power; Ulfar's Land Shifts to Arnkel; Thorolf's Land Shifts to Snorri Godi; Ulfar Claims Orlyg's Land; Ulfar's Demise; The End of Arnkel's Ambitions; Chieftain - Thingmen Relationships and Advocacy: The Nature of Godoro; Advocacy; Arbitration and Legalistic Feuding; The Flexibility of the Godi - Thingman Relationship; The Social Effects of Concubinage; Distinctions of Rank; Hreppar: Communal Units; The Orkneys: A Comparison; Freedmen; The Family and Sturlunga Sagas: Medieval Narratives and Modern Nationalism: The Family Sagas; The Sturlunga Compilation; The Sagas as Sources; Modern Nationism and the Medieval Sagas; Conclusions; The Locations of the Family Sagas; The Legislative and Judicial System: Thing: Assemblies; Options; Systems of Power: Advocates, Friendship and Family Networks: Advocacy; The Role of Kinship; A Balancing Act; Friendship - Vinfengi and Vinatta; Women and Choices of Violence and Compromise: Vengeance and Feud: Goading in the Laxdaela Saga; A Goading Woman from Sturlunga Saga; Restraint Within a Major Chieftain's Household in the Sturling Age; Aspects of the Blood Feud: Territory; Marriage and Confused Loyalties; Some Conclusions; Feud and Vendetta in a Great Village Community: The Language of Feud; Norms of Restraint; Bluffing and Violence; Outlawry; Friendship Blood Feud and Power: The Saga of the People of Weapon's Fjord: Inheriting a Foreigner's Goods; Brodd Helgi's Revenge Against Thorleif; Struggle to Claim a Dowry; Skirmishes Over a Woodland; Seeking a Thingman's Allegiance; Brodd Helgi Breaks Vinfengi; Geitir Establishes Vinfengi; The Obvious Sources of Wealth: Sources of Income Available Only to Chieftains: Early Taxes; Price Setting; Additional Privileged Sources of Wealth; The Sheep Tax; Sources of Income Available to All Freemen: Trade; Slavery and the Rental of Land and Livestock; Lucrative Sources of Wealth for Chieftains: The Acquisition of Property in the Family Sagas: Disputed Property in the East Fjords: The Saga of the People of Weapon's Fjord; Disputed Property in the Salmon River Valley: Laxdaela Saga; Inheritance Claims in the Sturlunga Sagas: The Struggle to Inherit Helgastadir: The Saga of Gudmund the Worthy; Inheritance Rights to Heinaberg: The Saga of Hvamm Sturla; Resurgence of the Dispute over Heinaberg: The Saga of the Icelanders; A Peaceful Conversion: The Viking Age Church; Pagan Observance; A Viking Age Conversion; Geography and the Church; Early Bishops Priests and Nuns; The Beginnings of a Formal Church Structure; Gragas: The Grey Goose Law: Manuscripts and Legal Origins; Women and the Law; Marriage and the Church; Bishops and Secular Authority: The Later Church: Bishops; The Tithe and Church Farmsteads; Bishops and Priests in the Later Free State; The Church's Struggle for Power in the Later Free State; Priests; Monasteries; Big Chieftains, Big Farmers and their Sagas at the End of the Free State: Big Farmers and the Family Sagas; Advantages Enjoyed by the Storbaendr; The Saga of the Icelanders in the Sturlunga Compilation; The Storgodar - Not Quite Rulers; Iceland's Jarl; 1262 - 1264: The Covenant with Norway's King and the End of the Free State; followed by: Appendix 1: The Law Speakers; Appendix 2: Bishops During the Free State; Appendix 3: Turf Construction; Appendix 4: A Woman Who Travelled from Vinland to Rome; Notes; Bibliography; and Index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0140294456. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo. iceland; icelandic; sagas; vikings;. more information

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Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1984. (xviii) 504 pp. First Thus - Revised Edition. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: The Northern Peoples to A.D. 700: From the Beginnings to the Age of Migrations; The Legendary History of the Swedes and Danes; The Viking Kingdoms to the Close of the Tenth Century: The Scandanavian Community 1: Diversity and Unity; The Historical Traditions of Norway to 950; Denmark to the Death of Gorm the Old; Denmark and Norway from the Accession of Harald Bluetooth to the Death of Olaf Tryggvason - c. 950 - 1000; The Viking Movement Overseas: The Scandanavian Community 2: Aspects of Society; Causes of the Viking Movement Overseas; The Movement South and South-West to 954: the British Isles, the Frankish Empire, the Mediterranean; The Movement East: The Baltic Lands, Russia, Byzantium; The Movement West: Iceland, Greenland, America; The Viking Age Ends: The Scandanavian Community 3: Culture and Image; Svein Forkbeard, Saint Olaf, Knut the Great; The Viking Kingdoms to the Death of Haral Hardradi - 1066; Appendices: Runes; The Danelaw; A Rus Ship-Burial on the Volga; Supplemental Booklist; Select Bibliography; Index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0192158821. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. vikings; seafaring nautical adventure; berserkers;. more information

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Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2001. (xviii) 504 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: The Northern Peoples to A.D. 700: From the Beginnings to the Age of Migrations; The Legendary History of the Swedes and Danes; The Viking Kingdoms to the Close of the Tenth Century: The Scandanavian Community 1: Diversity and Unity; The Historical Traditions of Norway to 950; Denmark to the Death of Gorm the Old; Denmark and Norway from the Accession of Harald Bluetooth to the Death of Olaf Tryggvason - c. 950 - 1000; The Viking Movement Overseas: The Scandanavian Community 2: Aspects of Society; Causes of the Viking Movement Overseas; The Movement South and South-West to 954: the British Isles, the Frankish Empire, the Mediterranean; The Movement East: The Baltic Lands, Russia, Byzantium; The Movement West: Iceland, Greenland, America; The Viking Age Ends: The Scandanavian Community 3: Culture and Image; Svein Forkbeard, Saint Olaf, Knut the Great; The Viking Kingdoms to the Death of Haral Hardradi - 1066; Appendices: Runes; The Danelaw; A Rus Ship-Burial on the Volga; Supplemental Booklist; Select Bibliography; and an Index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0192801341. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. vikings;. more information

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London: Futura Books, 1976. 256 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; not store stamped. The Chapters are: Springtime in Venice; The Philosopher's Stone; Tu Oublieras aussi Henriette; The Grand Tour; The Path to the Leads; The Great Escape; High Summer in Paris; Dreams and Debauchery; Gambler's hazards; Miracles for Mme d'Urfe; London: the Cock Ensnar'd; An Affair of Honour; The Long Road Home; Autumn in Venice - the Scholarly Spy; and Winter in Bohemia - the Old Librarian.. ISBN: 0860073688. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. casanova; sexuality; erotica; Springtime in Venice; The Philosopher's Stone; Tu Oublieras aussi Henriette; The Grand Tour; The Path to the Leads; The Great Escape; High Summer in Paris; Dreams and Debauchery; Gambler's hazards; Miracles for Mme d'Urfe; London: the Cock Ensnar'd; An Affair of Honour; The Long Road Home; Autumn in Venice - the Scholarly Spy; and Winter in Bohemia - the Old Librarian;. more information

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