{"product_id":"b0h7rlh23j","title":"The Viking World: History, Myth, Culture, and Mystery (The Past That Built the Present)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Vikings are often remembered as fierce warriors from the cold North, sailing in longships and striking fear across medieval Europe. But their world was far greater than raids and battles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Viking World: History, Myth, Culture, and Mystery  takes readers on a journey through the full story of the Northmen—from their early roots in Scandinavia to their voyages across the seas and rivers of the medieval world. This book explores how the Vikings became raiders, traders, settlers, shipbuilders, farmers, poets, lawmakers, and explorers whose influence reached from England and Ireland to Iceland, Greenland, Byzantium, and even the shores of North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside these pages, readers will discover the rise of Viking society, the power of the longship, the shock of early raids, the creation of the Danelaw, the settlement of Iceland and Greenland, the eastern journeys of the Rus and Varangians, and the transformation of Viking descendants into Christian rulers and medieval powers. The book also explores Norse mythology, including Odin, Thor, Freyja, Loki, Yggdrasil, Valhalla, Ragnarok, runes, sagas, sacred rituals, animal symbols, and the mysteries that still surround the Viking Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in a clear and engaging style, this book looks beyond the simple image of the Viking warrior. It reveals a rich and complex world of courage, violence, trade, faith, law, art, survival, and memory. It asks important questions: Were the Vikings only warriors? What did they believe? How far did they really travel? Why did the Greenland settlements disappear? And why does the Viking world still capture our imagination today?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers who love history, mythology, ancient cultures, archaeology, and unsolved mysteries, this book offers an accessible and fascinating guide to one of the most powerful and enduring worlds of the medieval past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Viking Age has ended, but the long shadow of the Northmen still reaches across history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924587675893,"sku":"YSL53227","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/71m0Moh4hCL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673278","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0h7rlh23j","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}