Los vikingos y sus expediciones a la Península Ibérica

Intrepid sailors and ferocious warriors, the Vikings landed on repeated occasions on the shores of the Spanish Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Christian and Islamic chronicles presented them as ruthless pagan pirates, but medieval Scandinavians were not only looters and pillagers. They were dynamic peoples with a high degree of sophistication, responsible for the resurgence of commerce and the exploration of many remote regions. The latest investigations and a thorough return to the sources allow this book to identify and explain all known Viking presence in the Peninsula providing, at the same time, a very much needed integral panorama of those raiders, settlers and traders who left their Scandinavian homelands in search of a better life between the 9th and the 11th centuries.