01429cam a2200265 i 4500 283106952 TxAuBib 20020411120000.0 020411s1972||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 72-75383 TxAuBib rda La Fay, Howard. The Vikings / Photographed by Ted Spiegel. Illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman. Foreword by Arne Emil Christensen, Jr. Prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society. Washington, DC : National Geographic Society, [1972] 207 p : hardbound. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Bibliography: p. 207. "The heathen who sacked the small tidal island off Britain's east coast had sailed across the North Sea in unstable ships with perilously little freeboard. Their homes lay far to the forbidding north, in lands untouched by Christianity. From the prows of their delicate, singularly beautiful vessels glared fanciful heads of horses and serpents and dragons. Their feat of navigation astounded Europeans whose world ceased almost at shoreline; so did their barbarous conduct. 20020411. Vikings. Books. National Geographic Society (U.S.), Special Publications Division.