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An illuminating presentation of daily life in Viking-era Scandinavia.

Table of Contents

Preface Chronology Maps Introduction: Time and Space Domestic Life Economic Life Intellectual Life Material Life Political Life Recreational Life Religious Life For Further Reading

About the Author

KIRSTEN WOLF is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Reviews

"For many people, the word "Vikings" conjures images of brawny pagan warrior-raiders roaming the seas in dragon-prowed ships, hair and eyes wild as they brawl with each other and their neighbors, and burn, pillage, rape, kill, and/or enslave innocent villages and monasteries. In this book, Kirsten Wolf reveals the warlike Vikings had a more complex culture. Viking-age Scandinavians were also farmers, hunters, fishermen, craftsmen, and even merchants; they traced kinship through both parents, and women could inherit property. In addition to its Preface and eight densely-packed chapters on every aspect of Viking life, Daily Life of the Vikings includes a Chronology, a brief Glossary, an Index, and "For Further Reading..,."[a] well-researched, well-written book on a too-often sensationally mythologized people."-Sixteenth-Century Journal

?[P]robes the realities of the greater Scandinavian community and its relationship to its Viking explorers.?-MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's Bookshelf

?For many people, the word "Vikings" conjures images of brawny pagan warrior-raiders roaming the seas in dragon-prowed ships, hair and eyes wild as they brawl with each other and their neighbors, and burn, pillage, rape, kill, and/or enslave innocent villages and monasteries. In this book, Kirsten Wolf reveals the warlike Vikings had a more complex culture. Viking-age Scandinavians were also farmers, hunters, fishermen, craftsmen, and even merchants; they traced kinship through both parents, and women could inherit property. In addition to its Preface and eight densely-packed chapters on every aspect of Viking life, Daily Life of the Vikings includes a Chronology, a brief Glossary, an Index, and "For Further Reading..,."[a] well-researched, well-written book on a too-often sensationally mythologized people.?-Sixteenth-Century Journal

"ÝP¨robes the realities of the greater Scandinavian community and its relationship to its Viking explorers."-MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's Bookshelf

"[P]robes the realities of the greater Scandinavian community and its relationship to its Viking explorers."-MBR Bookwatch/Donovan's Bookshelf