title: The Viking Age: A Reader, First Edition (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures)
author: Angus A. Somerville
description: <i>The Viking Age</i> is a most enjoyable and informative volume for dipping into. (<i>The Medieval Review</i>)<br /><br />Somerville and McDonald should be congratulated for having compiled a most useful reader, one that is extraordinarily broad and as complete as one might wish for a thorough introduction to the Viking Age. It should be welcomed by instructors, students, and the general reader. (<i>Journal of English and Germanic Philology</i>)
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  **Table of Contents**
  
    
  
  _Title Page_
  
   _Copyright Page_
  
   _Dedication_
  
   _Acknowledgements_
  
   _Foreword_
  
   _Introduction_
  
    
  
  FRAGMENTSThe Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS
  
    
  
  _Notes_
  
   _Bibliography_
  
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  VIKING  
  Published by the Penguin Group  
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  First published in 2001 by Viking Penguin,  
  a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  Translation copyright © Brooks Haxton, 2001
  
  Foreword copyright © James Hillman, 2001  
  All rights reserved
  
    
  
    
  
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