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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Late in the tenth century the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland from there they sailed onwards to North America setting foot on its shores five hundred years before Columbus first journeys of discovery. But by about AD 1500 their settlements were abandoned and the Norse Greenlanders and their explorations of the New World receded into the realms of myth. What happened between these momentous events? How did the Vikings really live – and die – and why have so many myths and legends grown up around this these intrepid people of the sea? Eirik the Red. The Davis Strait. The Vinland Map. The very names conjure up an atmosphere of ice and romance and there is much that it is evocative and romantic about the story of the Norse people – explorers who broke through existing frontiers in hostile and difficult conditions. Yet for this very reason the Viking story has often been distorted even to the present day. Sweeping aside the myths and misinterpretations in this authoritative new history of the greatest Viking adventurers Kirsten A. Seaver brilliantly demonstrates that the truth is every bit as compelling as fiction and offers a uniquely complete portrait of the Viking experience. (SP)