Название: Vikings in Russia: Yngvar's saga and Eymund's saga
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Edinburgh Univ Pr
ISBN: 0852246501
Год: 1989
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 102
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 6,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
Historians have long been aware of journeys made by Swedish and Norwegian vikings, traveling by river and portage through Russia, from the Baltic to the Caspian and Black Seas. This volume gives the first English translation of two such journeys.
The first follows the travels of the charismatic Swede, Yngvar, in his quest for the source of a great river, and describes his love affair with the beautiful Queen Silkisif, who bears his illegitimate child. The second follows the career of Eymund, a Norwegian prince, who starts his journey a viking and ends up an important manipulator of political power in Russia, helping to shape the role of the heirs to the throne of King Vladimir of Kiev, the first royal Russian convert to Christianity.