The Viking World Views
The list of contributors to this admirable compendium of knowledge contains 69 names, from Ambrosiani to Zachrisson. Their range of expertise combines to complement, but not compete with, the primarily literary Blackwell's Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, edited by Rory McTurk in 2004, and Philip Pulsiano's Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, published in 1993. Instead, The Viking World ranges across all the relevant disciplines and encompasses a great array of subject matter.
The Viking World encompassed Scandinavia, large sections of Russia, Britain, Normandy, Iceland, Greenland and even a small part of North America at one point. Trade was established with Constantinople or
This was something probably all Europeans took for granted at the time, the Vikings included. While most people in Europe, however, seldom ventured more than a few kilometres from the village where they were born, the Vikings were intrepid travelers. Even if they did not know what the world as a whole was really like, they were prepared to go off and explore it.
The Viking World Images
