Sheane, Michael, 1947-

Ulster in the Viking Age / Michael Sheane. - Ilfracombe : Arthur H. Stockwell, 2011. - 72 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1.The viking menace -- 2.Viking intentions -- 3.How the Ulstermen lived -- 4.Armagh -- 5.Bards -- 6.Viking gifts -- 7.Norse life in Ulster -- 8.An age of transformation -- 9.Olaf of the shoes -- 10.Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- 11.Brian Boru and the aftermath of Clontarf -- 12.The vikings in Scotland and abroad.

This title tells how, loaded with plunder, the dragon-headed longships swept across the waves for home. Behind them Rathlin Island, five miles off the Ulster coast, was ablaze, its monastery desecrated, its monks terrorized and its precious illuminated manuscripts destroyed.

9780722340851 (pbk.) : £7.99 9780722340851


Vikings--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Civilization, Viking--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
History.
Northern Ireland
c 1000 CE to c 1500
European history
History


Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History.

DA990.U46

941.601 SHE