INTERVIEW – The historian emphasizes that the peoples of the North are often wrongly described as Vikings. Term which designates the only men disembarked from their ships almost everywhere in Europe at the end of the 8th centurye century to the middle of the 11the century.
Lucie Malbos is a historian and lecturer at the University of Poitiers. A specialist in Nordic peoples, she publishes a reference work with Éditions Belin, in the collection “Ancient Worlds”, soberly titled The Peoples of the North. The book is a sum of more than 500 pages that tells more than a thousand years of history. It paints a rich picture of the interactions that these groups maintained in Europe and even in America for several centuries.
His previous book, Harald of the Blue Tooth, published by Humensis, is also coming out in paperback this fall.
LE FIGARO. – Your book talks about the peoples of the North. Why not talk directly about Vikings?
LUCIE MALBOS. - The Vikings are not a people strictly speaking. These are men who, on board ships, landed almost everywhere in Europe and even as far as America. It is therefore not an ethnonym, but the term refers to an activity. Not all Scandinavians are Vikings because all…
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