Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword
'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affec……続きを見る
This book takes a comprehensive approach to security in the Nordic-Baltic region, studying how this region is affected by developments in the international system.
The advent of the new millennium c……続きを見る
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Book I
First Adventure Concerning the Niebelungs
Second Adventure Concerning Siegfried
Third Adventure How Siegfried Came to Worms
Fourth Ad……続きを見る
The Elder Eddas (also known as the Poetic Edda) is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, ……続きを見る
Oppveksten gav oss uendelig mye, som frihet, opplevelser og kunnskap. Og kanskje det viktigste av alt – vi lærte verdien av solidaritet. I et samfunn der konfrontasjoner mellom naboer, venner eller ……続きを見る
The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often ……続きを見る
"Njáls saga, Brennu-Njáls saga, is one of the sagas of Icelanders. The most prominent characters are the friends Njáll Þorgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnarr Hámundarson, a formidable wa……続きを見る
4 works of Snorri Sturluson Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (1179-1241)
This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Snorri Sturluson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump d……続きを見る
A fascinating look at some of the early Viking kings, such as Óláfr Tryggvason (Olaf the First), and Knut den Mektige (Canute the Great). Written by famed historian Thomas Carlyle.
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著者:Elina Sana
出版社: E-painos Oy (LLC)
発売日: 2012年11月23日
Luovutetut kertoo Suomesta jatkosodan aikana Natsi-Saksaan luovutettujen ihmisten ja heidän omaistensa tarinan. Elina Sanan monivuotinen tutkimustyö perustuu luovutettujen ihmisten ja heidän omaiste……続きを見る
著者:Anders Winroth
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2011年12月05日
In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the rece……続きを見る
著者:Jussi M. Hanhimaki
出版社: The Kent State University Press
発売日: 1997年01月01日
Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the “Finnish Solution,” 1945–1956, is the first full-scale study of Finland’s role in Soviet-American relations during the onset of the cold war. Cold wa……続きを見る
The "Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson" also known as the "Prose Edda" is believed to have been put together by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson in……続きを見る
From the Preface
...The Alexanders of Scotland having united Galloway, then a powerful maritime state, to their dominions, began to think of measures for obtaining a permanent possession of the Hebr……続きを見る
著者:Nancy Marie Brown
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年10月30日
Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding an……続きを見る
著者:Stig Dagerman
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2011年12月28日
In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg’s small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden an……続きを見る
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 pe……続きを見る
THE HEIMSKRINGLA (Old Norse, 'the Circle of the World') is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas, recounting the lives of famous Scandinavian kings. First written about 1230 by Icelandic scho……続きを見る
著者:Padraic Colum
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年03月05日
Padraic Colums The Children of Odin is a re-telling of the classic Scandinavian sagas, suited for young adults. Original illustrations by Willy Pogany are interspersed throughout the book. A table……続きを見る
Acest titlu este in limba romana! -- Premiul Magazin istoric 2000 pentru cea mai bună carte de istorieImpresionanta poveste a lui Radu Mărculescu a fost relatată nu demult pentru publicul larg de Ju……続きを見る
Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics was to become his religion and between 1902 and……続きを見る
著者:Hugh Montgomery
出版社: The Temple Publications Ltd.
発売日: 2013年01月22日
Following on from The God-Kings of Europe, The God-Kings of England, continues the Saga of the great Ulvungar Dynasty. It shows that there was a plan to counter the hegemony of Roman Christianity, b……続きを見る
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the te……続きを見る
著者:Frederick Hale
出版社: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
発売日: 2013年03月28日
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 comp……続きを見る
In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Sh……続きを見る
Canute the Great, also known as Cnut, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Though after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in……続きを見る
著者:Robert Wernick
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2018年11月02日
The Vikings thought of themselves as the ultimate warriors. But this one-dimensional image belies considerable complexity. They were, in fact, as much merchants as marauders. Among the commodities t……続きを見る
著者:Elina Sana
出版社: E-painos Oy (LLC)
発売日: 2012年11月23日
Vuonna 1938 lähes 200 henkeä pakeni Hitlerin Saksan juutalaisvainoja Suomeen. 6.11.1942 Valtiollinen poliisi luovutti heistä kahdeksan Saksan Gestapolle. Höyrylaiva s/s Hohenhörnillä poiskuljetettuj……続きを見る
Embodying the fears, fantasies, and forebodings of the people who lived in northern Europe when the world was a darker and more frightening place, these 42 authentic folktales were culled from the r……続きを見る