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The Viking Heart
How Scandinavians conquered the world
2021 . Arthur Herman . 29 + 484 pages
948.022 HER . Murray Scholls Library
- MAP: Viking voyages, originating in
- southwest coastal Norway to Iceland, England, Ireland, France
- Denmark to Germany, England, France, Spain, Italy
- East coast Sweden to south Finland, Volga to Caspian Sea, Dnieper to Kiev, Black Sea, Constantinople
pxi Preface
- pxv Norsemen genetic melting pot widespread in Europe
pxv Normans descendants of Norsemen, brought science and instruments to northern and western Europe
pxvii A Nation of Immigrants John F. Kennedy 1958 book @PSU
p001 Ch02 - The Wrath of the Norsemen
p003 Swedish raiders up the Volga, settlement at Novgorod
- p005 Only 3% of Norway is arable land, 25% forest, 70% bare mountain ranges
Hardanger Plateau World war 2 drama ... heavy water?
- p005 inland Sweden lakes and forests almost impassable before modern times
- p006 southern Denmark/Jutland infertile barrier southwards
p007 Storegga Slide 6225-6170 BCE
Doggerland land area/bridge between Scandinavia, England, France before 5000 BCE, Rhine and Thames into the same estuary
- p007 Move to farms inland around 4000 BCE, Vikings were mostly farmers
p007 Sami moved north, nomads herding reindeer, neolithic to present
p008 bronze in Scandinavia after 1700 BCE
- p009 vik is Norse for bay or creek
p009 more than Gotland graves shaped like ship
p010 Cimbri moved south towards Roman lands
p011 Scandinavian Goths migrated south along Vistula River Germany
p012 Gauls
p012 vir (man) -> virtus (virtue)
- p013 Tacitus: Germans revered women, advice
p014 Battle of Adrianople 378 AD August
- p014 Constantinople survived but western Roman Empire was conquered by 480 AD
p014 Franks seize northern Gaul, Visigoths seize southern Gaul and Spain, Saxons and Angles seize Britain
p015 Charles Martel stopped the
Umayyad invasion of Aquitaine at the Battle of Tours 721 AD
p015 Charlemagne 771 AD
p016 The Song of Roland 11th-century chanson de geste
p017 Danevirke wall protecting Danes from Franks
p017 Hedeby Danish trading village 8th to 11th century
p018 Danish King Godfred 804-810? threatens Charlemagne, assassinated by son?
- p020 Swedish longships up rivers to Kiev and Constantinople
- p020 raiders (even Scots and English) became "Vikings"
- p021 unpredictable raids, retaliation too late
p021 Roman Lutetia predecessor of Paris
p022 Charles the Fat
p022 Viking Easter 845 Siege of Paris
p022 ransom 7000 pounds of silver danegeld
p026 Alfred the Great defended Wessex from Danish vikings
p027 York capital of Viking Northumbria
p030 Ch02 - Being Vikings
p060 Ch03 - The World the Vikings Made, Part One: From Russia to the British Isles
p085 Ch04 - The World the Vikings Made, Part Two: Normandy, the Atlantic, and North America
p105 Ch05 - Twilight of the Gods: Vikings, Kings, and Christianity
p131 Ch06 - Conquerors: The Norman Transformation
p140 ]] housecarls [[
p162 Ch07 - Vikings into Scandinavians: From Games of Thrones to Mighty Fortresses
p192 Ch08 - Viking Heart Empire: King Gustavus Adolphus and the Scandinavian Century
p217 Ch09 - Scandinavians into Americans
- p211 Prince Bernard of Saxe-Weimar
p240 Ch10 - "We Are Coming, Father Abraham": Scandinavians in the American Civil War
p263 Ch11 - "More Wonderful than Riches": American Fever and the Great Migration
p295 Ch12 - Land of Wonders: How Two Scandinavian Icons Transformed Jazz Age America
p321 Ch13 - Men at Work: The Viking Heart and American Democracy
p348 Ch14 - The Viking Heart Come Home
p373 Ch15 - The Viking Heart in War and Peace
p406 Conclusion - The Viking Heart and the Land Beyond