HIST 290: The Viking World

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The name of Viking conjures images of barbaric plunderers during a Dark Age, but they, and the world they lived in, were so much more. The Norse people who went raiding also perfected ships that were the first to cross the North Atlantic and traded across the rivers of Russia to the great cities of Constantinople and Baghdad, all while creating a literature of epic myths and family sagas unsurpassed in world history. Learn about these Norse poets and the bright age they lived in, when empires fell and rose, when England and France first became kingdoms, and a diversity of brilliant scholars carried on the legacy of Rome from Irish monasteries to Muslim metropolises. Riedel