Format:
1 Online-Ressource (p. cm)
Edition:
1st edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781474213790
Content:
List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Don Teudo Rico Defeats a Viking raid -- Chapter 2. From the Encircling Ocean -- Chapter 3. So the Story Goes -- Chapter 4. A Mediterranean Adventure -- Chapter 5. Waiting for the Barbarians -- Chapter 6. The Wars of Santiago and Cordoba against Vikings -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: from Charter to History to Saga -- Appendix 1: Glossary of Histories and Historians -- Appendix 2: Timeline -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of al-Andalus. Most of the raids after this date were small in scale, but several heroes of the Old Norse sagas were said to have raided in the peninsula. These Vikings have been only a footnote to the history of the Viking Age. Many stories about their activities survive only in elaborate versions written centuries after the event, and in Arabic. This book reconsiders the Arabic material as part of a dossier that also includes Latin chronicles and charters as well as archaeological and place-name evidence. Arabic authors and their Latin contemporaries remembered Vikings in Iberia in surprisingly similar ways. How they did so sheds light on contemporary responses to Vikings throughout the medieval world
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474213769
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474213776
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474213783
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ISBN 9781474213752
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Available in another form
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474213790
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