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The Viking road to Byzantium

Title: The Viking road to Byzantium / H.R. Ellis Davidson.
Author: Davidson, H. R. Ellis (Hilda Roderick Ellis), 1914-2006
Publication: London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1976]

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Description

341 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [319]-330.

Contents

Trade and tribute: Across the Baltic; Finnmark and Biarmaland; Journeys into Russia; The coming of the Rus; Markets and fortresses; The road to Constantinople; The wares they carried -- Fighting in the East: the Rus as warriors; The first attacks on Constantinople; The campaigns of the Rus; The great Svyatoslav; The Varangians in Russia; The last links with Scandinavia -- Norsemen in Byzantium: The Varangian guard; Life in Miklagard; A Norwegian prince in Byzantium; In the service of the emperor; The holy city -- Ideas from the East: Marvels and Portents; The role of the Shaman; Odin in the East.

ISBN

0049400495
9780049400498

LCCN

76363365
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35329675q

OCLC

ocm02174093
2174093
SCSB-192089

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library