The Historical Dictionary of the Vikings traces Viking activity in Europe, North America, and Asia for over three centuries. During this period people from Scandinavia used their longships to launch lightning raids upon their European neighbors, to colonize new lands in the east and west, and to exchange Scandinavian furs for eastern wine and spices and Arab silver. The Viking age also saw significant changes at home in Scandinavia - kings extended their power, Norse paganism lost ground to chri...
The charm, warmth, and beauty of a Swedish Christmas is captured in this remarkable collection of 300 colorful, fun, and historic postcards dating back to the 1800s. Each postcard reveals the magic behind Christmas and of Scandinavian tradition and folklore. Here, gnomish elves meet Santa and children play with angels. With traditional postcards from renowned artists such as Jenny Nystrom, Elsa Beeskow, and Aina Stenberg, accompanied by explanations of the cultural and historical past, God Jul w...
Viking's Journal (Viking, #1)
by The Lost Journals and T-Shirt Company
A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of the true heroes to emerge during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
Svenska Folkets Underbara �den (Svenska Folkets Underbara den, #3) (Svenska Folkets Underbara Oden, #2)
by Carl Gustaf Grimberg
The Campaign in Norway (Official History of the Second World War)
by T. K. Derry
This high interest series will offer an introduction to historical warfare and notable warriors from ancient history. Each title will focus on one group of ancient warriors, providing details about the weapons they used, the battles they fought and the geography they covered.
There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its opponents on a battlefield. No better example arises than that of Sweden beginning in the 17th century, which held supremacy over northern Europe for 100 years without any technological, geographic or...
Love Your Tribe Honor Your Wife And Protect Your Home
by Rangvald's Viking & Valhalla Lined Journ
Sweden, a Good Life for All (Discovering Our Heritage)
by Kari Olsson
Presents Swedish geography, education, traditions, social customs, and sports, with a chapter on Swedes in America. Includes a list of Swedish consulates in the United States and Canada, and a glossary.
German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700-1918 (Oxford History of the Christian Church)
by Nicholas Hope
This book is the first history in English of the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A period of fundamental and lasting change in the political landscape with the separation of the old twin monarchies of Sweden-Finland and Denmark-Norway in Scandinavia (1808, 1814), and the unification of Germany (1866-71), this was also a time of particular unease and upheaval for the church. Attempts to emulate the spiritual community of the early church, re...
Advances in Food Research Volume 11 (Advances in Food & Nutrition Research)
by George F Stewart
Finnish Aces of World War 2 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces S., #23) (Aircraft of the Aces)
by Kari Stenman
Always outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts, the small band of Finnish fighter pilots who defended their Scandinavian homeland from the 'communist hordes' in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945 amassed scores only bettered by the Luftwaffe's Jagdflieger. Initially equipped with a motley collection of biplane and monoplane fighters garnered from sources across the globe, the Finnish Air Force was thrust into combat in November 1939. Given little chance against the massive Soviet force,...