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Read Ebook: The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) The early history manners and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Du Chaillu Paul B Paul Belloni
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OF VOL. I
CIVILISATION AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE NORTH 1
ROMAN AND GREEK ACCOUNTS OF THE NORTHMEN 7
THE SETTLEMENT OF BRITAIN BY NORTHMEN 17
THE MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY OF THE NORSEMEN 27
MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY 44
ODIN OF THE NORTH 51
THE SUCCESSORS OF ODIN OF THE NORTH 62
THE STONE AGE 69
THE BRONZE AGE 84
THE IRON AGE 125
RUNES 154
NORTHERN RELICS--BOG FINDS 193
NORTHERN RELICS--GROUND FINDS 235
DESCRIPTION OF SOME REMARKABLE GRAVES AND THEIR 247
GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE NORTH 259
GLASS 276
HORSES--WAGGONS 285
VARIOUS FORMS OF GRAVES 299
BURIALS 320
RELIGION.--WORSHIP, SACRIFICES, ETC. 343
RELIGION.--ALTARS, TEMPLES, HIGH-SEAT PILLARS, ETC. 356
RELIGION.--HUMAN SACRIFICES 364
RELIGION.--IDOLS AND WORSHIP OF MEN AND ANIMALS, ETC. 375
RELIGION.--THE NORNIR AND VALKYRIAS 385
RELIGION.--THE VOLVAS 394
RELIGION.--AEGIR AND RAN 403
RELIGION.--SACRIFICES TO THE ALFAR, DISIR, FYLGJA, HAMINGJA, AND LANDVOETTIR 409
VALH?LL-VALHALLA 420
SUPERSTITIONS.--SHAPE-CHANGING 430
SUPERSTITIONS.--WITCHCRAFT 439
SUPERSTITIONS.--OMENS 450
SUPERSTITIONS.--DREAMS 456
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY 464
THE LAND 478
DIVISIONS OF PEOPLE INTO CLASSES 486
SLAVERY--THRALDOM 502
THE THING 515
THE GODI AND THE GODISHIP 525
THE LAWS OF THE EARLIER ENGLISH TRIBES 532
THE OATH AND ORDEAL 553
DUELLING 563
OUTLAWRY 578
REVENGE 584
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SAGAS QUOTED IN THE VIKING AGE, INCLUDING THE PERIODS WITH WHICH THEY DEAL.
? The above dates are all more or less conjectural, and the Sagas are chiefly valuable as illustrating manners and customs.
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL KINGS OF DENMARK, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN, SOME OF WHOM HAVE SAGAS OF THEIR OWN.
KINGS OF DENMARK.
| A.D. Gorm | 900-940 Harald Bluetooth | 945-985 Svein Tjuguskegg | 985-1014 Harald | 1014-1018 Knut the Great | 1018-1035 H?rda Knut | 1035-1042 Magnus the Good, ruled over Denmark and Norway | 1042-1047 Svein Ulfsson | 1047-1075
KINGS OF NORWAY.
| A.D. Halfdan the Black, died | 860 Harald Fairhair, reigned| 860-930 Eirik Bloodaxe " | 930-934 Hakon the Good " | 934-960 Harald Grafeld " | 960-965 Hakon Jarl the Great, the hero of the battle of " | Gomsviking, | 965-995 Olaf Tryggvason " | 995-1000 Eirik Jarl " | 1000-1015 St Olaf " | 1015-1028 Knut the Great " | 1028-1035 Magnus the Good " | 1035-1047 Harald Hardradi " | 1047-1066 Olaf the Quiet " | 1066-1093 Magnus Barefoot " | 1093-1103 Three sons:--Eystein, Olaf, Sigurd J?rsalafari | 1103-1130 Civil war--Harald Gilli, Magnus the Blind, and others | 1130-1162 Magnus Erlingsson | 1162-1184 Sverrir | 1184-1202
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