VIKINGS -Analysis of the "Vinland sagas".
Date Submitted: 10/16/2001 23:17:29
Category: / History / European History
Length: 10 pages (2699 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 10 pages (2699 words)
"Barbarians...thrusting their swords through everything, taking pity on nothing. The destruction is universal... Like a whirlwind or a typhoon or a torrent or I know now what to say"; "... inhumanity"; "...barbarous tribe"; "...harshness of its manners and the savagery of its character"; "...not respecting female weakness, not pitying tender infants".
Above are a few of the terms used by the Constantinople patriarch Photius to describe Vikings and their actions; but similarly horrific descriptions of …
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