TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Gary Dean
TI  - Vikings and Goths: a history of ancient and medieval Sweden 
SN  - 9781476624341
AV  - DL660 .V555 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers
KW  - Vikings
KW  - History
KW  - Goths
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 1. A land reborn --; 2. The first settlers and Sweden's Mesolithic Age --; 3. Sweden of the Neolithic Age --; 4. Bronze Age Sweden --; 5. The Iron Age comes to Sweden --; 6. Roman Iron Age in Sweden --; 7. Visigoths defeat the Roman Empire --; 8. The Ostrogoths build an empire --; 9. Evidence of a Swedish origin for the Goths --; 10. Sweden in the German Iron Age : migration period --; 11. Sweden of the Vendel period --; 12. Norwegian Vikings assault the British Isles --; 13. Danish Vikings invade England --; 14. Viking raids and conquests in continental Europe --; 15. Viking ships and navigation --; 16. The Viking search for new lands --; 17. Danish unification during the Viking Age --; 18. The Norwegian struggle for independence --; 19. The empire of Knut the Great --; 20. William the Conqueror invades England --; 21. Norman Kingdom of Italy and Sicily --; 22. Swedish participation in the Western expeditions --; 23. Swedish unification --; 24. The Swedish people of the Viking Age --; 25. Sweden's early Viking expeditions to the East --; 26. The geography and people of Eastern Europe --; 27. Swedes of the Rus Khaganate --; 28. Sweden the great --; 29. Words written in stone --; 30. The last great expedition to the East --; 31. End of the Viking Age --; 32. Medieval Sweden --; 33. Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages --; 34. Novgorod the great, Lithuania and the rise of Moscow --; 35. Sweden and the Black Death --; 36. St. Birgitta of Sweden --; 37. Margareta and the Kalmar Union --; Epilogue; 2; b
N2  - "This book details the development of Scandinavia from the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions"--
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