Books with title The Vikings

The How We Know About series explores past civilizations with an emphasis on archaeological record. In The Vikings, each double-page spread looks at an important part of the Vikings' way of life and illustrates key evidence - artifacts, arts, crafts and written sources - that enables us to reconstruct and understand their ships, buildings, clothes, jewelry, and everyday life:•Watch a sleek dragon ship raiding deep into foreign lands.•Visit a bustling Viking longhouse and a master smith's workshop.•Learn how the Vikings landed in North America 400 years before Columbus.•Witness the last battle of a fierce Viking chieftain.

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to ""go a'viking"" meant to take to sea in a long ship for an adventure. Sometimes this was a trading trip, sometimes a piratical raid. Often it was both. Explorers and traders, warriors and poets, they ranged between Byzantium in the south and Iceland, and even North America, in the North. Their fame lives on.