Viking Exploration

They’re widely known as raiders, pirates, invaders, and savages, but despite their fearsome reputation (or perhaps because of it), Vikings continue to fascinate us today. And it’s not hard to see why. They were brave, rebellious, and fierce fighters—plus, based on Hollywood’s portrayals, they were quite good-looking. While media highlights their violence and toughness, there’s more to the Viking culture than just conquering lands. The Vikings were not just warriors but also traders, explorers, and lawmakers....

How much of the Viking Age is history—and how much was created by the storytellers who refused to let it die? The popular image of the Vikings is filled with horned helmets, fearless berserkers, burning monasteries, and warriors dreaming of Valhalla. The Icelandic sagas reveal something far more complicated: a world of ambitious kings, sharp-tongued poets, doomed outlaws, calculating lawmakers, fearless explorers, powerful women, and families trapped in devastating cycles of honor and revenge. Sagas of the North: The Real Lives and Legends of the Viking Age is an immersive narrative ...

Introducing "Vinland Saga" by Bjorn Wolfe - a thrilling tale of adventure, bravery, and discovery set against the backdrop of the Viking Age. Join our heroes as they journey across the seas to the mysterious land of Vinland, where they will face danger at every turn and encounter new cultures and customs. With its vivid storytelling and attention to detail, "Vinland Saga" will transport you back in time, immersing you in the sights, sounds, and sensations of this legendary era. Whether you're a history buff, an adventure seeker, or simply love a great story, "Vinland Saga" is a must-read. ...

Lucas Trask had a beautiful bride, a powerful position, and a bright future. Yet now, he's a man obsessed with revenge, willing to cross the galaxy in search of the man who stole his happiness. The galaxy is a dangerous place, full of dangers, allies and enemies, civilizations and barbarians. As Trask pursues his quarry, he will discover new friends and foes, new planets and cultures, new challenges and opportunities. He will also find a new purpose: to build a civilization out of chaos, to create a new home for his people, and to forge a new destiny for himself.

Discover the Untold Truth Behind History's Most Feared Warriors They came from the North with fire and steel. They conquered kingdoms, discovered new worlds, and left a legacy that echoes through a thousand years of history. This is their complete story. From the blood-soaked shores of Lindisfarne to the gates of Constantinople, from the frozen fjords of Scandinavia to the mysterious shores of Vinland, the Vikings carved their names into history with blood, steel, and glory. ★ A Complete Journey Through the Viking Age ★ Part I: The World of the Vikings Witness the birth of Norse ...

Step into the epic world of Vikings and Norse mythology! Whether you love history or thrilling stories, this book is for you.

The Unknown History of River Exploration in the United States, Canada and the Carribean before the Voyages of Columbus. Where did the early traders from Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean and the British Isles first land in North America? Modern Science emphatically states that homo sapiens appeared in North America via Siberia and across the sunken land of Beringia, now the Bering Strait, around thirty thousand years ago. Many other scientists say only twelve thousand years ago in the Clovis Man period. Who are the rest of the homo sapiens, and others including neanderthals, that were...

The journey of Erik the Viking is almost done but the Norns have not yet finished spinning and their webs threaten to engulf Erik, his family and his growing clan. He may be getting old, but Erik is still a force to be reckoned with and when others falter, the last Viking in the New World is...

What Modern Warfare Myths Get Wrong About The Vikings The shield wall was not broken by courage. It was broken by exhaustion, bleeding, and the brutal reality of human limits. Most modern portrayals of Viking warfare are built on a false premise: that violence in the Dark Ages was driven primarily by berserker rage, strength, and fearlessness. But open the archaeological record, and a very different reality emerges. Viking warfare was not an expression of rage—it was a highly engineered system constrained by logistics. Viking Warfare and Engineering presents the gritty, operational ...

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade...

The Navigational Reality of the Atlantic Expansion The overlooked story of how Norse explorers mastered the Atlantic—and why their logistical experiment ultimately collapsed. For centuries, the Viking discovery of America has been treated as a mythic legend or a heroic adventure. That focus misses the far more consequential reality: the transatlantic crossing was a brutal, calculated exercise in open-ocean survival, risk mathematics, and supply-chain logistics. When the Norse moved west, they were not sailing blindly. They were executing the final, fragile extension of a maritime system ...

In a jungle of monsters, the real danger is falling for one... Cora A monster is chasing me through my home. On prehistoric planet Xren, where alien dinosaurs roam free, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. My home in a treetop was supposed to be safe. Nobody should know I’m here, a hundred feet off the ground. But this thing even knows my name. I think this is a caveman chasing me. He’s huge and terrifying, with spikes on his face and a big horn growing from his head. He has something even bigger under his loincloth. Yeah, I know their game on this woman-less planet: abduct Earth girls ...

They weren't just raiders. They reshaped the world. In 793 AD, Norse warriors attacked a monastery on the coast of England, and Christendom was terrified. But raiding was only the beginning. Over the next three centuries, Scandinavians founded Russia, conquered a third of England, settled Iceland and Greenland, reached North America 500 years before Columbus, served as the elite bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, besieged Paris, conquered Sicily, and carved out the Duchy of Normandy — whose descendants conquered England in 1066. What you'll find inside: The longship revolution — the ...

You just tried out for the school play. Who wants the lead part more than anyone? YOU! Imagine sailing the high seas without a care in the world. Storming castles for gold and jewels. Wearing a horned helmet. But be careful what you wish for. That might not be the way it was for an explorer on a Viking ship.…

How much do you know about the enthralling and unique Viking culture? Perhaps you have watched one of the many remarkable fiction or non-fiction films that depict Vikings (Last Kingdom, anyone?), and it has piqued your interest, making you want to learn more. Or maybe you're just a big history buff, who is keen to learn more about how the Vikings lived, innovated, and helped shape society as we know it today.

At the height of their power in the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings seemed invincible - conquering well-armed warriors whose ships were the ultimate in seafaring technology. From island bases near the deltas of major rivers, they used the waterways to scour the countryside, looting and burning towns, plundering merchant shipments, and stripping churches and monasteries of their gold, silver, and jeweled treasures.

The Norse Fallfest celebrates the bounty of the fields and the forests, yet when young hunter Ivar Lange hears the sound of metal hitting metal he knows the celebration is over. When he sees his best friend Rune kneeling on the ground, the sword of another man ready to strike a lethal blow, he knows his innocence is over. And when he raises his bow and fires off an arrow, he fears his life may be over too. Condemned to join a Norse raiding force on a mission to plunder settlements in the Middle East, Ivar knows it’s a death sentence in disguise. He escapes the force with Rune and two ...

The last Viking left in the New World finds fresh challenges when his growing family is forced to leave their home on the Patawomke River to sail north and find a new home amongst tribes who may be hostile. As his clan grows Erik learns to adapt to this new world and all its wonders...

Welcome to the apocalypse, Norse style! In 2147, an insurgency prepares to strike at an occupying force that has warehoused most humans in orbital habitats. Across the post-American West of 2041, rival groups battle for control of a massive nuclear arsenal. On July 20, 1944, a group of German rebels are about to attempt the assassination of Hitler and launch a coup against the evil Nazi regime. A group hike in Iceland isn't supposed to make these three events intersect, much less end in the death of all Worlds. But that's exactly what six friends trigger when they accidentally breach the ...

Book Five in the New World series, set in the world of the Vikings. When the old world meets the new world there will be clashes! Erik is Norse but he was left in the new world when his clan returned home. He has to fight not only to protect his new family but his new clan as hostile tribes try...