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Navigate Viking history, culture, and literature with world-renowned medievalist Christopher R. Fee, Ph.D., named by the Princeton Review as one of America’s best professors.
Frequently depicted as “Scandinavian scavengers,” warlike pirates, raiders, and invaders, the Vikings have lately surfaced from the depths of history to become pop culture’s most adored ruffians. For Prof. Fee, this recent craze for all-things Viking is a mixed blessing. The spike in popular fascination often occasions a need to separate the wheat from the chaff: fact from fiction, history from myth, literature from legend.
This 24-lecture audio series rights the ship by offering you a scholarly and comprehensive overview of Viking history, geography, literature, religion, and culture. Prof. Fee leads this series with canny and personable teaching.
As you meet the great Viking adventurers, you’ll explore pivotal events such as the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne in 739 and the Norman invasion o
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Why Study the Vikings? Medieval Marauders for a Modern Audience
Who were the Vikings? Life in Early Scandinavia
How to Go i viking: The Birth of the Longship and the Movement across the North Atlantic
The Coming of the Vikings: The British Isles as Norse Stepping-Stones
The Vikings in Britain up to the Establishment of the Danelaw
Danegeld, the Vikings in France, and the Founding of Normandy
Establishing Trade Routes in the East: The Rus, Kiev, and the Road to Byzantium
Postcards from the Edge of the Viking World: Norse Settlements in Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland
Vikings in the Big City: The Norse Bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor
Introducing the Gods of the North: Viking Creation Myths
Interpreting the Gods of the North: The Viking Pantheon
It All Ends in Doom: The Norse Twilight of the Gods
Wrestling with Monsters: The Norse Hero and the Troll
Diving into Trouble: The Norse Hero and in the Water-Hag’s Cave
Playing with Fire: The Norse Hero and the Dragon
Converting the Vikings: Pagan and Christian in Njal’s Saga
Magic, Miracles, and Murder in The Saga of the Earls of Orkney
The Great Icelandic Anti-Heroes: Egil Skallagrimsson and Grettir Amundarson
The Twilight of the Viking Age and King Harald’s Saga
Archaeology and the Vikings: Stones and Bones and Ship Burials
Reading Viking Writing: Solving the Riddle of Runes
Speaking Viking: The Danelaw and Its Impact upon the English Language
Legally Viking: The Lasting Impact of Norse Law and Government
Forever Viking: Contemporary Representations of the Vikings
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