BOOKS - Vikings in the South Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean
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Vikings in the South Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean
Author: Ann Christys
Year: 2015
Number of pages: 150
Format: PDF
File size: 14.3 Мб
Language: ENG
Year: 2015
Number of pages: 150
Format: PDF
File size: 14.3 Мб
Language: ENG
In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of al-Andalus. Most of the raids after this date were small in scale, but several heroes of the Old Norse sagas were said to have raided in the peninsula.