Armies of the Vikings, Ad 793-1066: History, Organization and Equipment
Armies of the Vikings, Ad 793-1066: History, Organization and Equipment Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. In…
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Armies of the Vikings, Ad 793-1066: History, Organization and Equipment
Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. In that period Viking warbands and increasingly large armies had left their Scandinavian homelands to range across vast regions, including the whole of Northern Europe and beyond, even reaching North America. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to the final failure of their expansionist ambitions directed against England.
Tough, skilled and resourceful, with a culture that embraced the pursuit of immortal fame and a heroic death in battle, their renown as warriors was second to none. The British Isles were terrorized for two centuries and at times largely conquered, in Normandy, Russia and elsewhere they also settled and founded states. As far afield as Constantinople, the Byzantine emperors employed them as their elite