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Books on: vikings russia

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Vikings in Russia: Yngvar's Saga and Eymund's Saga

Book by Hermann Palsson, Paul Edwards; Edinburgh University Press, 1989

Subjects:

Old Norse Literature--Translations Into English, Sagas--Translations Into English, Vikings--Russia--Romances

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

-i- VIKINGS IN RUSSIA Yngvars Saga and Eymunds...Cataloguing in Publication Data Vikings in Russia: Yngvars saga and Eymunds saga...the hazy world of Scandinavian Vikings in eleventh-century Russia. The brief glimpses they give...
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The Vikings

Book by Allen Mawer; Cambridge University Press, 1930

Subjects:

Vikings

Collections: History, Entire Library

...VII. The Vikings in Baltic lands and Russia 69...CHAPTER VII THE VIKINGS IN BALTIC LANDS AND RUSSIA THE activities...knowledge that the Vikings were all powerful...Western and Southern Russia during the greater...
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Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe, A.D. 700-1100

Book by P. H. Sawyer; Routledge, 1989

Subjects:

Christianity--Scandinavia, Europe--History--476-1492, Europe--Relations--Scandinavia, Scandinavia--Civilization, Scandinavia--Relations--Europe, Vikings

Collections: History, Entire Library

...19 Russia 115 Preface Many books on the Vikings have been published...for any unsettled Vikings who remained in the...of silver reaching Russia. For about fifty...persistent myths about the Vikings in Ireland are drawn...Atlantic islands, Russia, and even Scandinavia...
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The Vikings in History

Book by F. Donald Logan; Routledge, 1992

Subjects:

Vikings

Collections: History, Entire Library

The second edition of this lively and comprehensive book provides a forceful reassessment of the role of the Vikings in history. Drawing on archaeological, literary, as well as historical evidence, the author describes the Viking expeditions overseas, and their transformation from terrifying raiders ...
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The second edition of this lively and comprehensive book provides a forceful reassessment of the role of the Vikings in history. Drawing on archaeological, literary, as well as historical evidence, the author describes the Viking expeditions overseas, and their transformation from terrifying raiders to assimilated settlers whose rich culture played an influential role in European civilization.
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A History of the Vikings

Book by T. D. Kendrick; Charles Scribners Sons, 1930

Subjects:

Vikings

Collections: History, Entire Library

...PART II. THE VIKINGS ABROAD...V RUSSIA AND THE EAST 143...and terror, the vikings possessed themselves of new homes in Russia, on the Irish coast...and Yaroslav in Russia, the vikings abroad won the most...

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Journal Articles on: vikings russia

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Sexology in Russia and Estonia: Reflections on an Exchange

Journal article by E. Sandra Byers, Geraldine Slattery; The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Vol. 6, 1997

Subjects:

Estonia--Social aspects, Russia--Social aspects, Sex research--International aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...as a republic with a parliamentary democracy. Throughout its history of invasions by the Vikings, Germans, Danes, Swedes and the long period of Russian Czarist rule from 1703 until 1917, Estonia had experienced some periods of independence. Between...
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Transformation of Professional Practices of Identity among Journalists in Russia and Sweden: A Comparative Analysis

Journal article by Anna Sosnovskaya; Germano-Slavica, 2002

Subjects:

Journalism--Practice, Journalists--Practice, Mass media industry--Officials and employees, Russia--Social aspects, Sweden--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...still very well known--and this is convincing evidence). Moreover, the Russians are pleased to regard the Vikings as the ancestors of Russia (at least according to one version of history). Some Russian people say of the Swedes: how, other than positively...
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State and People in the History of Northern Norwegians and White Sea and Kola Russians

Journal article by Edward Thaden; East European Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2001

Subjects:

Commercial policy--History, Fisheries--History, History, Industrial development--History, Industrialization--History, International relations--History, Norway--International relations, Norwegians--History, Russia--International relations, Russians--History, Trade policy--History, White Sea

Collections: History, Entire Library

...University Press, 1995), pp. 53-59; Norway: A History from the Vikings to Our Own Times, ed. Rolf Danielsen, Stale Dyrvik, et al...no. 7, 1995). (3.) Cf. Thaden, The Rise of Historicism in Russia, pp. 178-79, 253. (4.) Harvard Dahl Bratrein, Karlsoy og...
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Lines in the Snow: Imagining the Russo-Japanese Frontier

Journal article by Tessa Morris-Suzuki; Pacific Affairs, Vol. 72, 1999

Subjects:

Boundary disputes--Analysis, International relations--Analysis, Japan, Japanese foreign relations--Russia, Kuril Islands--Strategic aspects, Russia, Russian foreign relations--Japan, Sakhalin--Strategic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...frontier zone between expanding Russian and Japanese mercantile power...Eurocentrically) referred to as "Asian Vikings," lived largely from fishing...Iakovlevich Shternberg, the Russian political prisoner turned ethnographer...to the Amur people whom the Russians called "Olcha" (despite the...
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The Geographical Pivot of History (1904)

Journal article by H.J. Mackinder; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 170, 2004

Subjects:

Geography, Historical, Historical geography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...opposing them the history of each of the great peoples around--the Russians, the Germans, the French, the Italians, and the Byzantine Greeks...and mountains. A rival mobility of power was that of the Vikings in their boats. Descending from Scandinavia both upon the northern...

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Magazine Articles on: vikings russia

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Goodbye to the Vikings? Richard Hodges Shows How New Evidence Is Leading to a Fresh Understanding of the Role of the Vikings in European History

Magazine article by Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 54, September 2004

Subjects:

Europe--History, Europe--Military aspects, Europe--Political aspects, Europe--Social aspects, Excavations (Archaeology)--6th-10th century AD, Excavations (Archaeology)--Analysis, Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe, Excavations (Archaeology)--Scandinavia, Excavations (Archaeology)--United Kingdom, Scandinavia--History, Scandinavia--Military aspects, United Kingdom--History, United Kingdom--Military aspects, United Kingdom--Political aspects, United Kingdom--Social aspects, Vikings--6th-10th century AD, Vikings--Evaluation, Vikings--History, Vikings--Political aspects, Vikings--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...between the grandsons of Charlemagne. The traditional history goes as follows. The Vikings were bold Baltic Sea merchant venturers plying their trade from Russia to north-west Norway. Yet some dissidents voraciously eyed other sources of income...
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Viking Fury - Legends of the Ravaging Norsemen

Magazine article by Stephen Henkin; World and I, Vol. 15, January 2000

Subjects:

Vikings--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Viking Despite the Vikings violent nature and...and the princes of Russia, in the service of...Byzantium, married to a Russian princess of Kiev...would forget that the Vikings were also great poets...Normandy and the Russia of Kiev; opened productive...One lesson of the Vikings did pass on, however...
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Belarus: A Real or Fictitious Nation?

Magazine article by Alexander Bely; History Today, Vol. 47, April 1997

Subjects:

Belarus--History, Lithuania--Relations with Belarus, Russia--Relations with Belarus

Collections: History, Entire Library

...buffer zone between Europe and Muscovy, neither Polish nor Russian, never strong enough to determine its own destiny. Yet attempts...from 862. It is believed to have been founded by Norwegian Vikings in order to control the route to Byzantium via Western Dvina...
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Baltic States

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, May 2002

Collections: Entire Library

...Sweden or Denmark would invade Russia through the Baltic states? The Vikings ceased to be a threat to Novgorod...farcical talk of Scandinavian Vikings as tacit, if unwitting, recognition...Furthermore, by admitting that Russia has been reluctant to cooperate...
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Britain Ad 1000

Magazine article by Ann Williams; History Today, Vol. 50, March 2000

Subjects:

Anglo-Saxons--History, United Kingdom--History, 449-1066 (Anglo-Saxon period)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...a number of fortifications against the Vikings, some of which were, or became, towns...via the Viking settlements in central Russia and the Ukraine to Byzantium and the Islamic...falling before the main impact of the Vikings was felt. In the 890s, Pope Formosus complained...

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Newspaper Articles on: vikings russia

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RUGBY LEAGUE: Hay and O'Neill Head Vikings Clear-Out

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 22, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1995 and going on to enjoy his best times at Headingley. The Vikings have signed Wigan forwards Terry OConnor and Mick Cassidy for...week later while Wood is ruled out of Englands games against Russia and France. All four are expected back for pre-season training...
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An Island Fit for the Greatest of Danes; ON THE TINY DANISH ISLAND THAT WANTS THE WORLD TO KNOW ITS HERITAGE, Bicycling Peaceful Blondes in the Land of Vikings A Bicycling the Old Land Blonde Army in of the Vikings

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 1, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Land Blonde Army in of the Vikings. Byline: Leslie Thomas...Poland and, not too distant, Russia. The Bornholmers want to make...happened to the rough and rowdy Vikings of old. By ten oclock each...way - they were bombed by the Russians after the war had ended. `On...
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Wedding Bliss in a Viking Style

Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), February 5, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in Action on Saturday February 25 will include the boat race and a huge battle fought by Vikings from all round the world, including a contingent from Russia! The festivities all link in with Yorks famous Jorvik Viking Centre, which has become a...
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Embassy Row

Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, April 26, 2000

Subjects:

Iceland, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...NATO to include the Baltic nations on Russias border. He says the Smithsonian exhibit...nearly 500 years before Columbus. The Vikings explored and established temporary settlements...Warsaw Pact nations into NATO, despite Russian objections. "A peaceful and prosperous...
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Big Guns to Fire as Ireland Close in on World Cup

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 5, 2007

Subjects:

Professional soccer

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...World Cup qualifieragainst Russia in Carlow on Saturday, October...are joined this time by their Vikings team-mate Lee Doran.There are...Euro Cup. Ireland, who beat Russia 50-12in the first leg in Moscow...a competitive game against Russiaand we have planned for a tough...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: vikings russia

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Vikings

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...against further invasions. Many Vikings settled where they had raided. The Scandinavian raiders in Russia were known as Varangians...leader Rurik founded the first Russian state. Elsewhere the Vikings came to be known as Danes, Northmen...
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Kandalaksha

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Finnish Kannanlahti, city (1989 pop. 54,000), NW European Russia, on the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea. It is a seaport and...stations. A settlement at the present site was known to the Vikings. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Arctic, The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Russia; the Yakuts, Tungus , Yukaghirs, and Chukchis of E Russia; and the Eskimo of North America. There is a sizable Caucasian...stock when the first European explorers, the Norsemen or Vikings , appeared in the region. Much later the search for the Northwest...
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Norsemen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...essentially from the other Vikings, who were known as Danes in England and as Varangians in Russia. See T. D. Kendrick, A History of the Vikings (1930, repr. 1968); E. C. Oxenstierna, The Norsemen (tr. 1965) and The World of the Norsemen...
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Dnieper

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Dnepr, Ukr. Dnipro, river, c.1,430 mi (2,300 km) long, in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. One of the longest rivers in Europe...the river was (9th 11th cent.) a commercial route for the Vikings, Slavs, and Byzantines. ____________________ The Columbia...

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