1975 The Viking Saga by Peter Brent Hardcover Illustrated

1975 The Viking Saga by Peter Brent Hardcover Illustrated The great Viking outbreak from Scandinavia came without warning in the eighth and ninth centuries. They went where their boats could take them along the coasts and rivers of Europe, England, Ireland and into the Atlantic - voyages of plunder or discovery. As the decades turned the Vikings began to settle, struggling for the mastery of England, founding Normandy and laying the foundations of modern Russia and where once they had raided across the Black Sea they now upheld Byzantine order, proud members of the Empire's Varangian Guard. Wherever they went they left behind their special legacy - a heritage of boisterous and fiercely defended freedom. 264 pages with 8 pages of colour plates and 100 black and white illustrations.