How did a Swiss national come up with the idea to write a book about Vikings and Normans despite living some 300 km away from the Mediterranean and 700 km from the Atlantic? Since spending a year in London I have loved the British way of life and valued the British, despite their sometimes eccentric manner. I have been dealing with and interested in English history for a long time and for ten years have been dealing specifically with the relations between the Vikings and Normans with the English and the predecessors, the Anglo-Saxons. My book, in German, is currently out of print and only available in .epub and .pdf format. I still, however, run this website, where I exchange correspondence on the subject of Vikings and Normans with other connoisseurs of their history. For those who prefer to use English, I have created this short appendix to my German website, where the main Viking related topics are explained as follows:
- Vikings, Normans who were they?
- Holy Island of Lindisfarne; did it really begin there?
- The horned helmet
- The vikings „business models“
- The Normans
- The Anglo-Saxons and the “Danelag” or “Danelaw”
- 1066- Three major Battles and the fate of three kings
- Todays Viking traces
This English Chapter within my website is a short summary of the 37 pages of my original Website in my mother tongue, German (I am a German-speaking Swiss).
The German part of this site provides even more information about these fascinating robbers, explorers, settlers and traders, —>the Vikings.
Your remarks please, whether critical or constructive, to:
Urs Pape, wikinorm@bluewin.ch