Vikings in the South: Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean

by Ann Christys

Book Overview

In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of al-Andalus. Most of the raids after this date were small in scale, but several heroes of the Old Norse sagas were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474213766
• ISBN13: 9781474213769
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"