这是一部激动人心的通俗历史作品,为维京人与盎格鲁人之间的冲突提供了一个新的视角,并将血腥的时期赋予了生命。在11世纪,北海周边地区的统治者都渴望权力。要获得权力,他们需要士兵,要获得士兵,他们需要银子,要获得银子,没有比战争和掠夺更好的办法了。这种恶性循环把北方所有的土地都卷入了一场争夺霸权和生存的残酷斗争,这场斗争将摧毁王国,打造一个帝国。《狼时代》带领读者踏上一段激动人心的旅程,穿越英格兰和斯堪的纳维亚半岛的血腥历史,穿越中世纪早期的欧洲:从挪威的荒野峡湾到穆斯林安达卢西亚的富裕城市。战争、密谋、暗箭伤人和贿赂比比皆是,获奖历史学家托尔·斯基(Tore Skie)通过大胆的戏剧化将传奇故事和斯卡尔迪诗结合在一起,使维京人和盎格鲁撒克逊人的世界栩栩如生。
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire [Audiobook]
A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo conflicts and brings the bloody period to life. In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all the lands of the north into a brutal struggle for supremacy and survival that will shatter kingdoms and forge an empire. The Wolf Age takes the reader on a thrilling journey through the bloody shared history of England and Scandinavia, and across early medieval Europe: from the wild Norwegian fjords to the wealthy cities of Muslim Andalusia. Warfare, plotting, backstabbing and bribery abound as prize-winning historian Tore Skeie weaves together sagas and skaldic poetry with bold dramatization to bring the world of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons to vivid life.
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