Best denmark history books according to redditors

You can find high quality free e-books on danmarkshistorien.dk but in Danish. In English it's more difficult, I found this but I did not read it https://www.amazon.com/History-Denmark-Palgrave-Essential-Histories/dp/0333659171/

I'm no expert in Medieval or Old-Norse studies, however I've do have an interest in it & from some searching on various different aspects of the Vikings I come across these:

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 1. Prehistory to 1520 it's a anthological survey book consisting of both historiographical and hagiographical (biographies of saints) primary & secondary sources ranging from prehistory ( before historical events were documented) through to medieval history of Scandinavia. It's quite pricey but definitely worth the money if your serious...

>The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

The History of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark,Finland and Iceland) is similar to Cambridge History yet significantly cheaper

The Viking World by Stefan Brink & Neil Price is a mid-range anthological book compromising of many articles from various scholars.

>I would really appreciate material that covers linguistics.....philology, morphology and the like
As for the other categories, I would really appreciate some introductory material on archaeology.

This book will probably be the best one for you because it includes all of the above.

Myth and Religion of the North: the Religion Ancient Scandinavia this book is a good overview of the different mythologies before the christianisation of the nordics.

Women in the Viking Age is a good book on the niche subject area of Women roles within the viking age nordics & its various colonies (from Greenland to Russia). Jesch uses various pieces of evidence from archaeological finds, runic inscriptions, historical records & Old Norse literature.

I would also recommend you look into the Icelandic sagas & Eddas. I'd use SagaDB because there are many various different icelandic sagas & in a variety of languages including English, Icelandic & Old Norse. If you'd like to go about learning O.N. you check the Viking Society for Northern Research or check out the books: A New Introduction to Old Norse: I Grammar: 1 or Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas

If you're interested at all in the presence of the Vikings (and later scandinavians) in Eastern Europe check out Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe

Hopefully this helps if you have any more specific questions don't be afraid to ask :)

http://www.amazon.com/Heavenly-Intrigue-Johannes-Scientific-Discoveries/dp/0385508441 -- read the back cover on that.

These two truly did not get along.

Brahe also kept much of his data from Kepler for fear of his younger assistant eclipsing his fame. In fact, he set Kepler to the task of understanding Mars ONLY because it was the most troublesome celestial body to understand at the time… an "impossible" task to take up the assistant's time.

After Brahe's death, and though the Brahe family desperately tried to keep it out of his hands, Kepler got all of Brahe's jealously guarded work and data. One must remember that astronomy is about meticulous the observation and accurate recording of data — this sort of data was critical to any aspiring astronomer, and more often than not, kept secret until publication.

Because there was motive as well as a mutual dislike between these two men, some think that Kepler systematically poisoned his master Brahe.

There's a lot to read online about this too — extremely fascinating stuff.

The guy who wrote that article on Denmark had a pretty long run robbing banks to fund leftist revolutionary movements in the Third World, fascinating story really. But sure nobody in the First World who thinks social democracy is imperialist could ever do anything but sit on their hands or kill themselves, and the same goes for anybody from the bourgeoisie who thinks capitalism is exploitative, especially anybody with a name like "Ederich Friengels".

Read the sagas! They give an account of daily life and times that is only filtered by the gap between when they happened and when they were written. Most of them have translations that can be read online (try http://sagadb.org/ or http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/).

Things from the Town: Artefacts and Inhabitants in Viking-Age Kaupang

The Birka Series - free!


I really love the video series from Ribe Vikinge Center

Looks like it is just some Danish book http://www.amazon.com/Practisk-engelsk-sproglaere-udarb-Edition/dp/1245063367. I really don't see any subliminal messages.

EDIT: And if you click see other formats it takes you right to the same text in the actual book format - https://archive.org/details/practiskengelsks00schuuoft

This isn't creepy at all.

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Zum einen sehen sie das Land verständlicherweise als gestohlen und finden es nicht so witzig, von einer Besatzungsmacht regiert zu werden. Es gibt mehrere Gruppen, die sich mehr Selbstbestimmung wünschen (und es gibt durchaus realistische Vorschläge, nur dass halt die Regierung keinen Bock hat). Oder wenigstens nicht das bisschen Land, das man ihnen lässt, weggenommen bekommen, wenn da eine Pipeline gebaut werden soll. Denn alle Verhandlungserfolge mit der Regierung sind dann immer wieder null und nichtig. Siehe Standing Rock und weitere Projekte, die nicht so viel Medienaufmerksamkeit kriegen.

Dann gab es zum Beispiel in Kanada (auch in den USA, aber über die Details dort weiß ich nicht viel) bis Ende der 90er (!!!) sogenannte Residential Schools, in die Kinder, die gewaltsam ihren Familien entrissen wurden, gepackt wurden, zur gewaltsamen Umerziehung. Vergewaltigung und Misshandlung waren an der Tagesordnung und die Schulen hatten explizit das Ziel, die Indigene Bevölkerung durch Assimilation auszurotten, bzw. nannte man das "to kill the Indian in the child". Die Sprache, die Kultur, möglichst alles. Das kennt man schon aus anderen Kolonialkontexten, wie sprachliche Freiheit und Identität unterdrückt wird, hier ist ein bisschen mehr zum Thema sprachliche (Menschen)Rechte allgemein.
Apropos Sprache - ist schon interessant, dass Französisch eine offizielle Sprache Kanadas ist, aber keine einzige Indigene Sprache. Die Erhaltung der Sprachen ist ein schwieriges Unterfangen und viele Institutionen und Gruppen setzen sich dafür ein.

Aus der Prämisse, dass Indigene Völker eher wie wilde Tiere und bestenfalls Untermenschen seien, ergeben sich auch heute noch wahnsinnig viele Probleme.
Diskriminierung, Sexualisierung und sexuelle Gewalt (die meisten in Deutschland werden wahrscheinlich nicht von den ermordeten und verschleppten Frauen in Kanada gehört haben), überproportionale Polizeigewalt und die Folgen der langen, langen Unterdrückung (die noch gar nicht abgeschlossen ist). Noch ein kanadischer Link (zwei von den Links hier sind von der Regierung selbst btw).
In Kanada wurde die letzte residential school 1996 geschlossen, wie gesagt.

Unterm Strich spreche ich also nicht davon, dass Indigene Gruppen nicht das gleiche theoretische Recht wie andere Amerikaner oder Kanadier haben, aber die gelebte Realität tatsächlich mit zu den schlimmsten zählt und die Diskriminierung mitunter drastischer ausfällt als z.B. für African Americans, aber auch, dass noch immer Gruppen um die Anerkennung und Selbstbestimmung kämpfen, die ihnen durch die Kolonialisierung entrissen wurde.

Falls es wen interessiert, CBC ist der kanadische Radio- und TV-Broadcaster und hat eine CBC Indigenous Sparte. Da kommt viel bzgl. der aktuellen Krisen, der Lage allgemein, lokalen Events usw.

http://www.amazon.com/After-Rescue-Identity-Community-Contemporary/dp/1403962707

Hey my dad wrote a book about all this business! You guys should check it out; don't think it was very popular it could use some exposure.

Not really history, but I liked this one: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Danish-Culture-Norman-Berdichevsky-ebook/dp/B008DM2R80/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

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If you want a Danish perspective then the following book looks like promising starting point (I haven't read it)

Mythology and Nation Building: N.F.S. Grundtvig and His Contemporaries

This interdisciplinary anthology offers new perspectives on the role of pre-Christian mythologies in the formation of national communities in 19th Century Europe. Through a combination of theoretical articles and case studies, it provides new understandings of how intellectual and cultural thinkers across Europe utilised pre-Christian mythologies as a resource for forging their respective national communities.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8771846263

These are not primary sources, but overall good intros that will have leads to the sources.

The Vikings in Britain and Ireland is a good place to start https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vikings-Britain-Ireland-Jayne-Carroll/dp/0714128317

It is relatively cheap and Is meant to be an introduction/ general public read. Start here and you can find sources relevant to your project.

Additionally, a more scholarly book is the Viking Diaspora https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Diaspora-Medieval-World/dp/1138020796 This books has lot on the Danelaw.

For primary sources it might be worth looking into the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is a bit earlier than the end of the Viking period, but mentions Vikings in England. Orkneyinga saga covers the Orkneys and Hebrides and the connection between Scotland and Norway. There are even some runestones in Sweden that mention people dying in Bath, England if you want to look outside of sagas. Additionally, look at the portable anqituity schemes website and search for Viking artifacts because there are a lot on the site especially for the Viking camps such as Torksey.