People of the North. The history of the Vikings. 793-1241

Viking civilization is a unique phenomenon in history. There were no Europeans before them who would so widely spread the boundaries of their world. Their conquest campaigns, the search for new lands and legendary courage attract our attention after many centuries. The book of John Haywood is an attractive story of the ancient Scandinavians, as well as a story about their mythology, according to which the path of the people of the North began in the AS-Gard during the creation of the world.
The author places this civilization in a wide historical context, from its pagan roots to integration into Christian Europe. This approach helps to see that in different countries the Viking era has come for different periods. It was a special world born in the first centuries of our era in Western Europe, and finally disappeared only in the 15th century in Greenland