by David M. Wilson · Thames and Hudson Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780500275429
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«The Vikings and Their Origins: Scandinavia in the First Millennium» is the historical essay by David M. Wilson, published by Thames and Hudson in paperback.
The book covers the history and culture of the Vikings from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the Viking age, around the year 1100. It examines their raids and conquests, trade with Byzantium, Persia and India, and the colonisation of Iceland, Greenland and the coasts of North America, drawing on archaeological finds.
This revised edition, published in 1989, has 144 pages and 110 illustrations, 15 of them in colour. Text in English.
For readers interested in medieval history and the Viking expansion across Europe.
Sir David Mackenzie Wilson is a British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator, specialising in Anglo-Saxon art and the Viking Age. From 1977 until 1992 he served as the director of the British Museum, where he had previously worked, from 1955 to 1964, as an assistant keeper. In his role as director of the museum, he became embroiled in the controversy over the ownership of the Elgin Marbles with the Greek government, engaging with a "disastrous" televised debate with Greek Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri.
