著者:Kathleen Stokker
出版社: Minnesota Historical Society Press
発売日: 2009年06月06日
Spells are conjured, herbs collected, and potions concocted in this fascinating history of the practices and beliefs of Norway's folk healers at home and in the New Land.
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出版社: Minnesota Historical Society Press
発売日: 2014年12月07日
A collection of Civil War–era letters written by Hans Christian Heg, who grew up in southeastern Norway, migrated to Wisconsin, and traveled to the gold fields of California and the mining camps of ……続きを見る
著者:Odd S. Lovoll
出版社: Minnesota Historical Society Press
発売日: 2010年05月06日
In the nineteenth century, the United States, "the land of newspapers," was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the European influx. Alread……続きを見る
著者:William Craigie
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年01月13日
In 1931, Sir William Craigie gave the Alexander Lectures in English at the University of Toronto entitled The Northern Element in English Literature with a focus on proving the existence of a Northe……続きを見る
Who were the Norse gods the mighty Æsyr, led by Óðinn, and the mysterious Vanir? In The Norse Myths we meet this passionate and squabbling pantheon, and learn of the mythological cosmos they inhabit……続きを見る
Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that ……続きを見る
著者:E. M. Halliday
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2017年02月01日
Grigori Rasputin, the "Holy Devil" of Russian legend, was a well-meaning peasant with a psychiatrist's gift for healing and unusual opportunities for sexual conquest. The tsar, historian E. M. Halli……続きを見る
“A Sea Cadet in 1711 and a Vice Admiral in 1718, young Wessel barged into battle against his Swedish foes wherever he found them, often in direct violation of orders issued by timid souls in the Adm……続きを見る
著者:William R. Short
出版社: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
発売日: 2016年05月06日
The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of lit……続きを見る
A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known a……続きを見る
Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in i……続きを見る
Naja Marie Aidt's first novelーwhich is one part mystery, one part family dramaーbuilds on her highly successful career as an award-winning poet and short story writer.
Winner of the Nordic Council'……続きを見る
"When Mondru's prose is ablaze, cruising around with her inside a bruised and beaten artist’s soul is a veritable party. . . . By God she's a great prose stylist full of character."-Politiken
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The Poetic Edda is the single greatest legacy of the Viking people. An incomparable masterpiece of human literature. You will find here all the mythological and legendary poems from this enigmatic c……続きを見る
著者:Allan Temko
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2017年03月22日
An Imperial colony on America's West Coast was Russia's aim. But, Pulitzer-Prize winner Allan Temko writes in this essay, the stakes were higher than they realized.
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著者:Ian Grey
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2019年06月21日
Joseph Stalin was one of the most frightening figures of the twentieth century. His name brings to mind brutal terrorism and ruthless oppression. Yet, as New York Times bestselling author Ian Grey s……続きを見る
Amid the intrigue of the Russian court, John Quincy Adams took walks with Alexander I, spoke up for America, and, as historian William Harlan Hale writes in this short-form book, scored a diplomatic……続きを見る
This innovative work will be of interest to students and specialists in Canadian history, colonial and imperial history, Indigenous studies, immigration and ethnic history, and Icelandic history.
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Le parcours d'une nation qui a su se faire une place au sein de l'Europe
Ignorée de l’Europe pendant des siècles, la Finlande est demeurée en dehors des grands courants qui ont traversé l’histoire, ……続きを見る
Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding families and moments ……続きを見る
They were brothers from Norway's "Red County." One was a guerrilla leader, the other a president of a singing association. One emigrated to America, the other stayed home to fight for Norwegian inde……続きを見る
'Noormannen' van John Haywood is een prachtig geschiedenisboek dat de rijke cultuur van de Vikingen in de volle breedte beschrijft.
'Noormannen: de Vikingsaga 793-1241' van John Haywood beschrijft d……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2017年04月15日
Today’s images of Vikings show them wearing horned helmets. However, history has a different account. To learn if the Vikings really wore horned helmets in battle, read the contents of this children……続きを見る
Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western wor……続きを見る
著者:Robert Wernick
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2018年09月12日
A terror to the outside world, Viking longships were a source of great, understandable pride to Norsemen. At a time when the majority of men and women in the West lived and died within walking dista……続きを見る
著者:Njord Kane
出版社: Spangenhelm Publishing
発売日: 2016年10月23日
The story of the Norse is a Viking adventure in history.
The Norse saga began with the first ancient tribes of Norsemen during the Early Nordic Stone Age. The beginning of the Nordic Ax Culture when……続きを見る
"Así que si tienen ganas de conocer de manera amena una cultura en la que la valentía era piedra básica de una forma de vida no duden en buscar Breve Historia de los Vikingos y conocer de la mano de……続きを見る
著者:Sverre Bagge
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2014年04月06日
A concise history of medieval Scandinavia
Christianity and European-style monarchyーthe cross and the scepterーwere introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have pro……続きを見る
The Liber legis Scaniae: The Latin Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries forms the second volume of The Danish Medieval Laws and is dedicated to the Latin text based on the Danish med……続きを見る
Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls,ーessentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory; general……続きを見る