Beyond the northlands : Viking voyages and the Old Norse sagas
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund2016
Book
'Beyond the Northlands' explores their world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond the horizon of reality.
Main title:
Beyond the northlands : Viking voyages and the Old Norse sagas / Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.
Author:
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780198701248 (hbk)
Dewey class:
948'.022
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
214420