- Additional Authors
- EBSCOhost
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2023).
- Contents
- Prologue: The Sword in the Burial Mound -- Introduction: Norway's Once and Future King -- Chronology -- 1 The World of a Young Norse Chieftain -- 2 Harald Fair Hair and His Successors -- 3 The Viking Olav Haraldsson -- 4 Olav Abandons the Gods -- 5 The Battle of Nesjar,1016 -- 6 Building a Kingdom -- 7 The Terrible One and Other Gods -- 8 The New Religion -- 9 Olav's Empire -- 10 Olav and the Swedish Princesses -- 11 A War on Demons -- 12 The Killing of Asbjorn Slayer of Seal -- 13 The Shadow of Knut the Great -- 14 War with Knut -- 15 Norway Rejects Olav Haraldsson -- 16 Exile in Viking Russia -- 17 Olav's Homecoming -- 18 The Old Gods' Revenge: Stiklestad -- 19 Olav's 'Return from the Dead' -- 20 The Triumph of Olav Haraldsson -- Epilogue: The Eternal King of Norway -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translations and Spelling
- ISBN
- OCLC
- om2958109600
- Author
Seward, Desmond, 1935- author.
- Title
The greatest Viking : the life of Olav Haraldsson / Desmond Seward.
- Publisher
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2022.
- Copyright Date
©2022
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2023).
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
To 1030
- Added Author
EBSCOhost
- Other Form:
Print version: Seward, Desmond The Greatest Viking La Vergne : Birlinn,c2022 9781780277950