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维京不列颠：劫掠、征服、探索与传奇
(uk) Thomas Williams
For many of us, when we see the word "Viking", the image of brutal bandits coming across the sea in the dark centuries before the "Norman Conquest" in 1066 AD, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil on the coast of Britain will come to mind. Britain in the Viking Age was indeed turbulent and full of atrocities. Many kings and military lords pursue great fame and shine in the annals of history. Just looking at their names makes people's blood boil and their imaginations boundless: Swayne the Mustache, Edmund the Brave, Ivar the Boneless, Alfred the Great, Eric the Blood Axe, Edgar the Pacifier, and so on. Evidence of these people's cruelty, tyranny, greed, arrogance, perseverance and wisdom are still unearthed from the soil of Britain from time to time. But that's not all. Thomas Williams is the curator of Vikings: Lives and Legends at the British Museum. In this book, drawing on his experience as a curator, he tells the story of the arrival in Britain of the people we call Vikings: not only did they raid and rob, they settled, colonized and ruled. The Viking influence on the islands was profound and lasting, unexpectedly shaping the development of British society, culture and politics over hundreds of years. Indeed, the presence of Scandinavian immigrants can still be felt in British language, literature, place names and folklore, and their distant memories, filtered and reproduced by writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, William Morris and G. K. Chesterton, have changed the imagination of Westerners. This book is unconventional. It uses the latest results of academic research and the author's many years of research to deeply explore the relics left by the Vikings and their contemporaries in the British Isles and the mountains and terrain they traveled through, including rune stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields, poems and chronicles, filling in a long-missing historical link. Through this book, readers will re-understand that forgotten world, its impact on British history and its inspiration for today's world.
For many of us, when we see the word "Viking", the image of brutal bandits coming across the sea in the dark centuries before the "Norman Conquest" in 1066 AD, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil on the coast of Britain will come to mind. Britain in the Viking Age was indeed turbulent and full of atrocities. Many kings and military lords pursue great fame and shine in the annals of history. Just looking at their names makes people's blood boil and their imaginations boundless: Swayne the Mustache, Edmund the Brave, Ivar the Boneless, Alfred the Great, Eric the Blood Axe, Edgar the Pacifier, and so on. Evidence of these people's cruelty, tyranny, greed, arrogance, perseverance and wisdom are still unearthed from the soil of Britain from time to time. But that's not all. Thomas Williams is the curator of Vikings: Lives and Legends at the British Museum. In this book, drawing on his experience as a curator, he tells the story of the arrival in Britain of the people we call Vikings: not only did they raid and rob, they settled, colonized and ruled. The Viking influence on the islands was profound and lasting, unexpectedly shaping the development of British society, culture and politics over hundreds of years. Indeed, the presence of Scandinavian immigrants can still be felt in British language, literature, place names and folklore, and their distant memories, filtered and reproduced by writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, William Morris and G. K. Chesterton, have changed the imagination of Westerners. This book is unconventional. It uses the latest results of academic research and the author's many years of research to deeply explore the relics left by the Vikings and their contemporaries in the British Isles and the mountains and terrain they traveled through, including rune stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields, poems and chronicles, filling in a long-missing historical link. Through this book, readers will re-understand that forgotten world, its impact on British history and its inspiration for today's world.