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Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz and Matthias Wemhoff, eds., The Vikings: Life and LegendIthaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780801479427. $35.00.

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Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz and Matthias Wemhoff, eds., The Vikings: Life and Legend Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780801479427. $35.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2015

Thomas J. Rushford
Thomas J. Rushford*
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Northern Virginia Community College
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Itinerario , Volume 39 , Issue 2: Africa In The Atlantic World , August 2015 , pp. 383 - 385
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© 2015, Research Institute for History, Leiden University 

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References

1 Hall, Richard, The World of the Vikings (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013)Google Scholar; Logan, F.D., The Vikings in History, 3 rd Edition (London: Routledge, 2005)Google Scholar.

2 One interesting element that these coins reflect is the dramatic reach of the Viking Age. Many of the latter Viking Age coins have Islamic symbols on them, illustrating the social and symbolic importance of Islamic society on the Viking world (See, e.g., 55).

3 Manning, Patrick, Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.