![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, The Vikings, Roesdahl goes through each source in detail providing the reader with examples of finds from that particular source and the importance and impact of that find. Each source poses its own advantages and disadvantages. With the current influx of new information and research, our perception of the period is under constant revision.ģ Our knowledge of the Viking Age in Scandinavia and abroad is based on a wide range of sources: written sources, (such as runic inscriptions on stones) poetry, archaeological finds, landscape and climate. The Viking Age is, in Roesdahl's own words, "an important and fascinating period of Scandinavia's past".1 Else Roesdahl, Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Arhus, Denmark, in her own words sets out to charter what she deems to be "the most important aspects of the Viking Age, where interpretations and problems are reasonably clear."2 The book is a revised edition of an earlier 1992 edition, whereby it has been updated with information from new archaeological excavations. ![]()
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