bokomslag The Pagan Lords: The forgotten Viking campaigns of the Great Heathen Army in France and Spain 840 ? 982 AD
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The Pagan Lords: The forgotten Viking campaigns of the Great Heathen Army in France and Spain 840 ? 982 AD

Benjamin James Baillie

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  • 62 sidor
  • 2016
The Viking age exploded like a thunderbolt out of the blue onto the international stage during the latter part of the 8th century. By the middle of the next century, the piratical raids for booty and plunder gave way to outright conquest and colonisation. In the West, the British Isles bore the brunt of this aggression in the form of the campaigns of the "Great Heathen Army" which not only dismantled the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England, but also the Pictish and Briton dominions of modern day Scotland and the Celtic Principalities of Ireland. On the continent of mainland Europe Viking armies challenged the great Empire of Charlemagne. Ragnar Lodbrok's sack of Paris in 845 AD showed that no city or Kingdom was safe from the fury of the North-men. His sons and other Viking warlords embarked on a reign of terror that would bring Western civilisation to its very knees, eventually resulting in the creation of the Duchy of Normandy at the Treaty of St Clair Sur Epte in 911 AD. However Viking campaigns to create a second Normandy in Brittany, Aquitaine and Spain have been shrouded in mystery until now.

  • Författare: Benjamin James Baillie
  • Format: Häftad
  • ISBN: 9780993045547
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 62
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-06-01
  • Förlag: Benjamin James Baillie