The Danish archaeologist Worsaae toured the British Isles in the 1840s looking for the marks of the Northmen. He combines history and fieldwork to describe the Viking raids and conquests, the Danelaw in England, the Norse earldoms of Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, the Scandinavian kingdoms in Ireland, and the place-names, runes, monuments and customs that still bore witness to them.
A pioneering work of Viking studies, of real interest to anyone tracing the Norse heritage of Britain and Ireland. Download the free EPUB.