The Vikings: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Vikings, credited to Allen Mawer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Vikings by Allen Mawer. Read in English by Kevin Johnson This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University of Durham: late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes the following chapters: I.Causes of the Viking movement; II.The Viking movement down to the middle of the 9th century; III.The Vikings in England to the death of Harthacnut ; IV.The Vikings in the Frankish Empire to the founding of Normandy (911);V. The Vikings in Ireland to the battle of Clontarf (1014); VI.The Vikings in the Orkneys, Scotland, the Western Islands and Man; VII.The Vikings in Baltic lands and Russia; VIII.Viking civilisation; IX. Scandinavian influence in the Orkneys, Shetlands, the Western Islands and Man; X. Scandinavian influence in Ireland ; XI. Scandinavian influence in England; and XII. Scandinavian influence in the Empire and Iceland. - Summary by Kevin Johnson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Vikings
• Author credits: Allen Mawer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 4:00:44

Catalogue topics

• harthacnut
• vikings
• normandy
• england
• ireland
• orkney islands
• isle of man
• scotand

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 4:43
2. 02 - Chapter 1. Causes of the Viking movement — 12:58
3. 03 - Chapter 2. The Viking Movement... — 17:51
4. 04 - Chapter 3. The Vikings in England . . . — 35:40
5. 05 - Chapter 4. The Vikings in the Frankish... — 17:38
6. 06 - Chapter 5. The Vikings in Ireland... — 18:10
7. 07 - Chapter 6. The Vikings in the Orkneys... — 6:51
8. 08 - Chapter 7. The Vikings in Baltic Lands and Russia — 20:40
9. 09 - Chapter 8. Viking Civilisation — 48:57
10. 10 - Chapter 9. Scandinavian Influence... — 7:29
11. 11 - Chapter 10. Scandinavian Influence in Ireland — 11:08
12. 12 - Chapter 11. Scandinavian Influence in England — 25:52
13. 13 - Chapter 12. Scandinavian Influence in the Empire and Iceland — 12:47

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