The Viking world

PART I: VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIA

People, society and social institutions

Living space

Technology and trade

Warfare and weaponry

Pre-Christian religion and belief

Language, literature and art

PART II: THE VIKING EXPANSION

The British Isles

Continental Europe and the Mediterranean

The Baltic

Russia and the East

The North Atlantic

PART III: SCANDINAVIA ENTERS THE EUROPEAN STAGE

The coming of Christianity

The development of nation states (ríki).