Kings and Vikings | Scandinavia and Europe AD 700–1100 | P.H. Sawyer |

ABSTRACT

Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

The Age of the Vikings: an introductory outline

chapter 2|16 pages

The twelfth century

chapter 3|15 pages

Contemporary sources

chapter 4|26 pages

Scandinavian society

chapter 5|13 pages

Scandinavia and Europe before 900

chapter 6|20 pages

The raids in the west

chapter 7|15 pages

Conquests and settlements in the west

chapter 8|18 pages

The Baltic and beyond

chapter 9|13 pages

Pagans and Christians

chapter 10|4 pages

Conclusion: kings and pirates