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As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe.
In this course, you will study the Vikings not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they were equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Professor Kenneth Harl synthesizes insights from an astonishing array of sources: The Russian Primary Chronicle (a Slavic text from medieval Kiev), 13th-century Icelandic poems and sagas, Byzantine accounts, Arab geographies, annals of Irish monks who faced Viking raids, Roman reports, and scores of other firsthand contemporary documents.
Among the topics you will explore in depth are the profound influence of the Norse gods and heroes on Viking culture, and the Vikings' extraordinary accomplishments as explorers and settlers in Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. With the help of archeological findings, you will learn to analyze Viking ship burials, runestones and runic inscriptions, Viking wood carving, jewelry, sculpture, and metalwork.
From 790–1066, virtually invincible Viking fleets fanned out across Europe, raiding, plundering, and overwhelming every army that opposed them.
By 1100, however, the Vikings had disappeared, having willingly shed their identity and dissolved into the mists of myth and legend. How did this happen, and how should we remember this formidable civilization that, for being so formative, proved so transient?
[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. The Vikings in Medieval History
[*]2. Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia
[*]3. Scandinavian Society in the Bronze Age
[*]4. Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman Ages
[*]5. The Age of Migrations
[*]6. The Norse Gods
[*]7. Runes, Poetry, and Visual Arts
[*]8. Legendary Kings and Heroes
[*]9. A Revolution in Shipbuilding
[*]10. Warfare and Society in the Viking Age
[*]11. Merchants and Commerce in the Viking Age
[*]12. Christendom on the Eve of the Viking Age
[*]13. Viking Raids on the Carolingian Empire
[*]14. The Duchy of Normandy
[*]15. Viking Assault on England
[*]16. The Danelaw
[*]17. Viking Assault on Ireland
[*]18. Norse Kings of Dublin and Ireland
[*]19. The Settlement of Iceland
[*]20. Iceland—A Frontier Republic
[*]21. Skaldic Poetry and Sagas
[*]22. Western Voyages to Greenland and Vinland
[*]23. Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia
[*]24. The Road to Byzantium
[*]25. From Varangians into Russians
[*]26. Transformation of Scandinavian Society
[*]27. St. Anskar and the First Christian Missions
[*]28. Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark
[*]29. Cnut the Great
[*]30. Collapse of Cnut’s Empire
[*]31. Jarls and Sea Kings of Norway
[*]32. St. Olaf of Norway
[*]33. Kings of the Swedes and Goths
[*]34. Christianization and Economic Change
[*]35. From Vikings to Crusaders
[*]36. The Viking Legacy
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