The Vikings

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Between the eighth and eleventh centuries Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to ‘go a’viking’ meant to take to sea in a long ship for an adventure. Sometimes this was a trading trip, sometimes a piratical raid. Often it was both. Explorers and traders, warriors and poets, they ranged between Byzantium in the south and Iceland, and even North America, in the North. Their fame lives on.

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This entertaining and informative account was written especially for Naxos AudioBooks by David Angus, author of Great Explorers of the World, Great Inventors and other spoken word histories.
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Vikings have always fascinated children and David Angusu2019s The Vikings makes terrific and exciting listening, telling the truth about them, which the Christian monks, writing at the time of Viking raiding, certainly didnu2019t. And no, they didnu2019t run around wearing horned helmets either u2013 that was 19th-century imaginings!
Kati Nicholl, Daily Express
It wasnu2019t an empire in Roman, Mongolian or British terms of permanence and civilisation, but the Vikings who rowed in open boats to their settlements in North America and Russia, Iceland and Byzantium, were surely the worldu2019s toughest expansionists. History, culture, exploits, mythology, itu2019s all here.
Sue Arnold, Guardian
Superbly narrated by Joe Marsh, The Vikings by David Angus is specifically appropriate for young listeners as they learn about the history, culture, myths, legends, personalities, explorations, and accomplishments of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians that are collectively referred to as the u2019Vikingsu2019 and who were the scourge of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries A.D. Technically flawless, this 2 disc recording features the individual chapters being separated by a thematically appropriate and concise musical interlude. As entertaining as it is informative, The Vikings is a very highly recommended listen and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to family, school, and community library audio book collections.
Childrenu2019s Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
Finally, I loved Joe Marshu2019s reading of David Angusu2019s The Vikings. With zip and panache, it tells of the formidable men who spent all summer u2019a-Vikingu2019 (like u2019a-monsteringu2019, itu2019s apparently a present participle) throughout the known world, and collecting hoards of wealth to bury back home. And all winter carousing, and occasionally slaughtering each other, in vast great halls in the frozen north. You couldnu2019t make it up.
Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday

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