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Vikings: Fear and Faith in AngloSaxon England - Review
Contemporary Review, July, 2001
Vikings: Fear and Faith in AngloSaxon England. Paul Cavill. HarperCollins. [pound]16.99. 361 pages. ISBN 0-00-710401-4. Between roughly 800 and 1050 the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that then made up England were subjected to a series of maritime raids from marauding Vikings. The Vikings then settled in England and in time were absorbed into the mainstream of what was becoming a unified nation: in time a Danish king ruled over England.
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Anglo-Saxon England was a violent enough place but the Viking raids brought a higher level of violence with an enemy whose aims were different from the Anglo-Saxons. On the other hand, those Vikings who settled in England gradually adopted the Anglo-Saxons' Christianity. This book studies the effects of the Vikings' raids on English life, on how the Vikings became Christian and on how they helped in the unification of England into one Kingdom. The author concentrates not just on what happened but on how people at the time 'understood what was happening to them and their nation in the light of their faith in God'. This was a contest between fear and faith. Of necessity the author depends on archaeological discoveries and more importantly on surviving texts. Rather interestingly he devotes pages 243-339 to extracts from those texts that were too long to be included in the relevant chapters but too important to ignore. The text is readable and a difficult period is made understandable both to the student and to the general reader interested in the origins of his country.
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