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The Scandinavian countries today form a security-community for economic cooperation and the settlement of international controversy by peaceful methods rather than by war. This status was achieved not while Norway and Sweden were amalgamated in a...

There are over 3000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect different stages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441437449Author Charles F. LummisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 168mm...

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Studies in Upplandic Runography is a detailed treatment of the runic inscriptions from the province of Uppland, Sweden, where runic art reached a high point in A.D. 1200 and where runic inscriptions are most numerous. Most of the runic monuments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763525879Author Erik BeukelFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

The experience of early Norwegian-American immigrants, told in their letters home-now discoverable in an extensive index Seeking economic improvement or a fresh start, following family or news of a land of opportunity, Norwegians left their homeland...

A wealth of stylish patterns inspired by the textile history of Norway. One of the oldest textile factories in Norway, Salhus Tricotagefabrik (1859-1989) operated outside Bergen for over 130 years, producing thousands of sweaters and other durable...

Iceland appears to many a country shrouded in mystery and legend, and marked by contradiction: a part of Europe, and yet separated from it by the Atlantic Ocean; seemingly inhospitable, and yet home to more than 300,000 souls. Wasteland with Words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328595904Author Arthur HermanFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *...

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362165Author Trevor RowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume...

The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people...

This book collects recent works on the subjects of sacrificial offerings, ritualised violence and the relative values thereof in the contexts of Scandinavian prehistory from the Neolithic to the Viking era. It provides a detailed re-appraisal of key...

A history of how Norway and Sweden became the envy of the modern worldThis is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. Francis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354005Author Annika LindskogFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 470g

Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922505Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788740831443Author Michael Hesselholt ClemmesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint University Press of Southern DenmarkPublisher University Press of...

In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg's small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country's brightest...

In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would...

The Gulathing Law regulates relations between the social classes, the king and his officers, the clergy, and the peasantry. Parts of the law appear to be a social contract between two parties: on the one hand the people, on the other hand the church and...

Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost...

This is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. Francis Sejersted, one of Scandinavia's leading historians, tells how Norway...

How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the worldOur confidence in markets comes from economics, and our confidence in economics is underpinned by the Nobel Prize in Economics, which was first...

Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner...

Christianity and European-style monarchy--the cross and the scepter--were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian...

This very accessible narrative...tells the story of "the first two important battles of 1066", Fulford Gate and Stamford Bridge, and of the leaders of the opposing English and Norwegian factions. CHOICE The evidence of later 12th- and...

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The stories of Thor, Odin and Loki are familiar to most of us. Many people know that the Norse gods fought against giants and were ultimately betrayed by Loki the trickster. The end of the world and the death of the gods in a grim battle called Ragnarok...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863161Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 275g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788776842536Author Ove KorsgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789506556Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521406Author Anthony FaulkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern...

An updated edition of the definitive history of Scandinavia over the past five centuries Despite certain distinctions and differences, the lands of Scandinavia, or Norden-Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands-are united by...

The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artefacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonisation, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that stayed at...

In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jon Vidar Sigurdsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354012Author Annika LindskogFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 650g

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this...