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The Viking Age of Sweden: Traders, Raiders, and Eastern Routes

by Adrian E. Markham
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798188127176
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 266
  • Original Price: GBP 11.15
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 313 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Nordic Countries

The Viking Age of Sweden: Traders, Raiders, and Eastern Routes by Adrian E. Markham explores the remarkable era when Swedish Vikings looked east instead of west, forging connections that stretched from the forests of Scandinavia to the markets of the Islamic world and the imperial capital of Constantinople. Through rivers, portages, and Baltic trade routes, these seafarers built networks that reshaped northern and eastern Europe.

Markham follows the rise of trading centers such as Birka and Gotland, the voyages along the Volga and Dnieper, and the emergence of the Rus. Along the way, Swedish merchants, warriors, and explorers encountered Slavic communities, Byzantine emperors, and Abbasid merchants, exchanging silver, furs, silk, ideas, and beliefs across thousands of miles. The book also examines daily life, religion, commerce, diplomacy, and the gradual transformation of Viking society as Christianity and centralized kingship took hold.

Drawing on archaeological discoveries, runestones, Byzantine writings, Islamic travel accounts, and medieval chronicles, The Viking Age of Sweden presents a vivid and carefully researched portrait of a civilization whose greatest achievements often unfolded far from the battlefields of western Europe. It reveals how generations of Swedish Vikings helped create enduring connections between Scandinavia and the wider medieval world, leaving a legacy that continued long after the Viking Age had come to an end.

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