Series: Misc
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0907162002
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0907162002
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: Were the Vikings hairy heathens in horned helmets? Warlike and bloodthirsty they were, yet they had a sophisticated society with a religion of grand and tragic dimensions.
This book, finely illustrated, tells the turbulent story of the coming of Christianity to the Vikings - its conflict with the worship of Odin and Thor - its eventual triumph. The conversion from Thor's hammer to Christ's cross advanced sometimes by fierce battle, sometimes by civilized debate. In both cases we have tried to bring the Viking era to life - to show what happened, how, and why - as vividly as possible.
All these events happened more than a thousand years ago - yet they grip the imagination, and illuminate the very roots of Western culture.
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