People of the North. The History of the Vikings. 793-1241

The civilization of the Vikings is a unique phenomenon in history. There were no Europeans before them who expanded the boundaries of their world so widely. Their conquests, quests for new lands, and legendary bravery attract our attention even after many centuries. John Haywood's book is an exciting history of the ancient Scandinavians, as well as a narrative about their mythology, according to which the journey of the people of the North began in Asgard at the creation of the world.
The author places this civilization in a broad historical context, from its pagan roots to its integration into Christian Europe. This approach helps to see that in different countries, the Viking Age occurred at different times. It was a special world, born in the early centuries of our era in Western Europe, and ultimately disappearing only in the 15th century in Greenland.