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The Viking Age, Vol. 1

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

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Author
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903
Title
The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Credits
Produced by Richard Tonsing, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DL: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Northern Europe, Scandinavia
Subject
Scandinavia -- Civilization
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 56167
Release Date
December 13, 2017
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE VIKING AGE THE EARLY HISTORY MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCESTORS OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN MOUNDS, CAIRNS, AND BOGS AS WELL AS FROM THE ANCIENT SAGAS AND EDDAS
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS OF VOL. I
  4. 4.A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SAGAS QUOTED IN THE VIKING AGE, INCLUDING THE PERIODS WITH WHICH THEY DEAL.
  5. 5.A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL KINGS OF DENMARK, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN, SOME OF WHOM HAVE SAGAS OF THEIR OWN. — KINGS OF DENMARK. — KINGS OF NORWAY. — KINGS OF SWEDEN.
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. CIVILISATION AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE NORTH.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. ROMAN AND GREEK ACCOUNTS OF THE NORTHMEN.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. THE SETTLEMENT OF BRITAIN BY NORTHMEN.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. THE MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY OF THE NORSEMEN.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY— continued .
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. ODIN OF THE NORTH.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. THE SUCCESSORS OF ODIN OF THE NORTH.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. THE STONE AGE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. THE BRONZE AGE.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. THE IRON AGE.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. RUNES.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. NORTHERN RELICS—BOG FINDS.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. NORTHERN RELICS—GROUND FINDS.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. DESCRIPTION OF SOME REMARKABLE GRAVES AND THEIR CONTENTS.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV. GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE NORTH.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. GLASS.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. HORSES—WAGGONS.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. VARIOUS FORMS OF GRAVES.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. BURIALS.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX. RELIGION.—WORSHIP, SACRIFICES, ETC.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. RELIGION.—ALTARS, TEMPLES, HIGH-SEAT PILLARS, ETC.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. RELIGION.—HUMAN SACRIFICES.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. RELIGION.—IDOLS AND WORSHIP OF MEN AND ANIMALS, ETC.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. RELIGION.—THE NORNIR AND VALKYRIAS.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. RELIGION.—THE VOLVAS.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. RELIGION.—ÆGIR AND RAN. [319]
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. RELIGION.—SACRIFICES TO THE ALFAR, DISIR, FYLGJA, HAMINGJA, AND LANDVŒTTIR.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. VALHÖLL-VALHALLA.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. SUPERSTITIONS.—SHAPE-CHANGING.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. SUPERSTITIONS.—WITCHCRAFT.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. SUPERSTITIONS.—OMENS.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. SUPERSTITIONS.—DREAMS.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV. THE LAND.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV. DIVISIONS OF PEOPLE INTO CLASSES.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI. SLAVERY—THRALDOM. [494]
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII. THE THING.
  43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE GODI AND THE GODISHIP.
  44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX. THE LAWS OF THE EARLIER ENGLISH TRIBES.
  45. 45.CHAPTER XL. INDEMNITY, WEREGILD.
  46. 46.CHAPTER XLI. THE OATH AND ORDEAL.
  47. 47.CHAPTER XLII. DUELLING.
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLIII. OUTLAWRY.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLIV. REVENGE.
  50. 50.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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