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1) Vikings
Author
Publication Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the Vikings, discussing why they went on raids, what they wore, what their ships were like, and how they shaped history.
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Publication Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It is the late 10th century, and you are one of a hardy band of young adventurers who plan to sail all the way from Scandinavia to Vinland in North America. Will you survive this arduous voyage in a fragile open boat?
Author
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In their remote Viking settlement, Folkvi and her brother, Aslakr, have always been close-unnaturally close. They've grown more intimate still as Folkvi learns her shaman mother's craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkvi to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he's done the unthinkable: He's...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Wulf, an immortal Viking warrior, is forced into the position of protecting Cassandra Peters, a young woman who holds the key to saving the world from Daimons, vicious vampires who must destroy Cassandra to end the curse that has banished them into the darkness.
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers" Anders Winroth is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of History at Yale University.
A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacy
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from...
12) The Vikings
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Publication Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Describes the daily life and customs of the Vikings and examines their many roles as farmers, traders, explorers. raiders, colonizers, and mercenaries.
13) Viking
Author
Publication Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of the Vikings--their ships and weapons, heroes and myths, and great adventures in war and exploration.
"Become an eyewitness to the world of Nordic raiders and traders and learn all about the culture and history of Vikings. This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour of the history and culture of these daring Norse adventurers. Children can learn all about the Vikings' incredible ships and conquests, as well as...
15) Wolfskin
Author
Series
Saga of the Light Isles volume 1
Publication Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Wolfskin is the first of a fantasy duet in The Light Isles series from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, romance, and magic.
All young Eyvind ever wanted was to become a great Viking warrior-a Wolfskin-and perform honorable deeds out in the name of his War fathergod, Thor. He can think of no future more glorious. And the chance to make it happen is his when his older brother Ulf is brought the tale of a magical...
18) The Northman
Publisher
Universal Studios
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Wolves of Odin must bring a rogue Viking chief to heel, in the rolling Yorkshire Dales... AD 1044. Fleeing the machinations of William the Conqueror in France, the Wolves of Odin set sail for Britain. They make for the north of the country, heading to Jorvik - Viking York. Its earl, Sigurd, doesn't believe they have arrived with peaceable intentions. To prove their good faith, he challenges them to fix a problem for him... North of Jorvik, in...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Battle calls the berserker once again... AD 781. Pagan Saxony groans under the Christian yoke. The invincible armies of Karolus, King of the Franks, occupy all this freedom-loving land and every Saxon must submit to baptism and pay tithes to the Church, or face death by beheading. Duke Widukind, leader of the Saxon rebels, is sheltering in the North, beyond Karolus's reach. He hopes to persuade Bjarki Bloodhand - once a famous berserker, but now a...