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This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, discusses what we now believe to be the truth, and provides excerpts from primary source documents. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they ...

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A richly drawn account of a single day in the Viking world, chronicling an hour in the life of 24 individuals from every corner of Viking society. From the bestselling 24 Hours series.

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An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.

This collection of short stories and poems spans 75 years of writings. From the hopefulness of the early immigration in the 1870s to the conflict of assimilation in the 1950s, the pieces reflect a range of experiences common to immigrant women from many cultures.

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This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, discusses what we now believe to be the truth, and provides excerpts from primary source documents. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they ...

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Worunter leiden Hunde am meisten? Unter Langeweile und Unterbeschäftigung! Mit diesem Ratgeber wird das anders: Spiele, die Hund und auch Mensch Spaß machen, sorgen für Unterhaltung. Ob in der Wohnung oder draußen - für jeden Hundetyp ist garantiert das Passende dabei. Das große Spiele-Kapitel stellt über 30 verschiedene Beschäftigungsideen vor. Bei jedem Spiel gibt es wichtige Kurzinfos auf einen Blick: ob es zum Beispiel für den Welpen, Jung...

With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlist The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.

Presents a translation of the Low German version of the Legend of St Anne, "Sunte Annen legend und all oeres geschlechtes." The Icelandic text survives fragmentarily in two manuscripts, dated to 1550-1575 and 1600-1650 respectively. This edition includes the text of both surviving manuscripts with corresponding Low German text on facing pages.

This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors.

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

The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.