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The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings

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The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings - Ferguson, Robert
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For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. The attack on Lindisfarne was a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods at Uppsala around 1090. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls 'the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history'. His long ...

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The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings 2010, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780141017754

Mass-market paperback

The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings 2009, Allen Lane, London

ISBN-13: 9780713997880

Hardcover