WORLD OF THE VIKINGS (PB)

The complete story of the Vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the early first millennium AD, through the incredible period of raiding, trading, and settling known as the Viking Age, to the last surviving Viking settlements in fifteenth-century Greenland. Follow in the footsteps of Viking merchants, raiders, and emigrants; track their journeys including the first documented raid on Lindisfarne in 739 and the semi-mythical travels of individuals such as Eirik the Red; and discover how the Vikings helped lay the foundations of the modern world.