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Vikings and Goths: A History of Ancient Medieval Sweden
Vikings and Goths: A History of Ancient Medieval Sweden
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This book details the development of ScandinaviaSweden in particularfrom the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions. Special attention is given to Eastern Europe, where Sweden dominated commerce through the conquest of trade towns and the river systems of Russia.