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_bHistory
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100 1 0 _aFerguson, Robert
_c1948-
245 1 4 _aThe hammer and the cross:
_ba new history of the Vikings
_eRobert Ferguson
247 0 0 _aOriginally published: London: Allen Lane, 2009
260 0 0 _bPenguin
_c2010
306 0 0 _axi, 450 p., [16] p. of plates
_bill., maps, ports.
_c20 cm
_epbk
358 0 0 _b20101104
_cIP
365 0 0 _a10.99
504 0 0 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520 0 0 _aFor those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe for the next 300 years. This is Robert Ferguson's account of those tumultuous days.
650 0 0 _aVikings
650 0 0 _aCivilization, Viking
942 0 0 _022
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