Scandinavia category: 802 books

Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual pursuits...

Die Autorin Amy Fuglø führt uns in eine vergangene Welt auf den Färöern. Sie erzählt vom Leben ihrer Mutter, die 1915 auf der nördlichsten Insel Viðoy geboren wurde und dort ihre Kindheit verbrachte. Nachdem bei ihrer Mutter Alzheimer festgestellt wurde, machte sich Amy Fuglø daran, ihre Erinnerungen...

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices,...

Wisconsin Territory's first Dane arrived in 1829, and by 1860 the state's Danish-born population had reached 1,150. Yet these newcomers remained only a small segment of Wisconsin's increasingly complex cultural mosaic, and the challenges of adapting to life in this new land shaped the Danish experience...

On July 22, 2011, a bomb went off outside government buildings in Oslo, Norway, killing eight people and injuring more than two hundred. Less than two hours later, a gunman claimed sixty-nine lives in a shooting spree at a summer camp on the island of Ut?ya, while terrified and desperate youths tried...

Bornholm (Denmark) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

The Sinclairs descend from Tognvald "the Mighty", Earl of Moere in Norway and of the Orkneys. In 876 his son Hrolf "the Ganger" entered the River Seine and pillaged the countryside. King Charles "the Simple" of France made peace by granting him the Province of Normandy,...

The saga of the Vikings rises and falls on the banks of history, ebbing and flowing with popular opinion and whimsical anecdotes. The Vikings are routinely typecast and labeled anywhere from bloodthirsty tyrants to valiant heroes. They have been condemned as pirates and praised as explorers. We have...

From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings—a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in longships. Though they held sway in the north, their power meant...

The Norsemen are a Germanic race, and belong, accordingly, to the Aryan family. Their next of kin are the Swedes and Danes. Their original home was Asia, and probably that part of Asia which the ancients called Bactria, near the sources of the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes. Not only the Norsemen are supposed...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.  Erik the Red is a short biography of the famous Viking.

The Essential Legends and Sagas Collection, classics in one book:The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights- James Knowles Four Arthurian Romances- Chretien DeTroyes Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut- Wace Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome- E.M. Berens Legends...

Der er i den senere Tid fra forskjelligt Hold gjort ikke saa lidt for at henlede Opmærksomheden paa den ejendommelige og indgribende Rolle, som Heksetroen og de deraf følgende Heksebrændinger spillede i det sekstende og syttende Aarhundrede hele Evropa over, og da ogsaa her i Danmark. Til...

Ved min Pleiefader Johannes Fibigers Død (13. Nov. 1897) tilfaldt der mig den Opgave, at besørge Udgivelsen af det Memoireværk, som han efterlod. Manuscriptet var allerede kjendt af Flere, som levende ønskede at se det offentliggjort — Prof. Høffding udtalte sig derom i den Nekrolog, som han...