Beauty is Glass from Viking
Author : Viking Glass Company
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Glass blowing and working
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Author : Viking Glass Company
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Glass blowing and working
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Author : Dean Six
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Glassware
ISBN : 9780764318597
Over 520 color photos display the handmade modern glassware produced by the Viking Glass Company of New Martinsville, West Virginia, from 1944 to 1970, including animals, baskets, candelabras, novelties, smoking items, tablewares, and vases. Patterns, cuttings, and etchings are also displayed, including Banford, Crackle, Encore, Three Foils, and Viking Star. The text provides listings of the Viking product lines from Ancestral to Tundra. Current market values are found in the captions.
Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2004-12-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780486440705
Fanciful designs, adapted from authentic Viking art, depict spiraling, interwoven images, real and mythological creatures, and an ancient rune stone portraying warriors in battle. 16 full-page illustrations printed on translucent paper.
Author : Mindy Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0593110390
This moving story about a magical bookstore explores the way war can shape a family and is perfect for book lovers everywhere, especially fans of Pages & Co., Pax, and Wolf Hollow. It’s 1944 Sutton, NY, and Poppy’s family owns and runs, Rhyme and Reason, a magical bookshop that caters to people from all different places and time periods. Though her world is ravaged by World War II, customers hail from the past and the future, infusing the shop with a delightful mix of ideas and experiences. Poppy dreams of someday becoming shopkeeper like her father, though her older brother, Al, is technically next in line for the job. She knows all of the rules handed down from one generation of Bookseller to the next, especially their most important one: shopkeepers must never use the magic for themselves. But then Al’s best friend is killed in the war and her brother wants to use the magic of the shop to save him. With her father in the hospital suffering from a mysterious illness, the only one standing between Al and the bookstore is Poppy. Caught between her love for her brother and loyalty to her family, she knows her brother’s actions could have devastating consequences that reach far beyond the bookshop as an insidious, growing Darkness looms. This decision is bigger than Poppy ever dreamed, and the fate of the bookshops hangs in the balance.
Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0465096999
The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156033978
"Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse. "Brown rightly leaves scholarly work to scholars. Instead, her account presents an enthusiastic appreciation of her education in how fieldwork and literature offer insights into the past."--The Seattle Times "[Brown has] a lovely ear for storytelling."--Los Angeles Times Book Review NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Motion pictures
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Author : Hermann Pálsson
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Ethics, Norse
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Publisher :
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : Dean Six
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780764321634
The Lotus Glass Company of Barnesville, Ohio (1912-1995), decorated glass blanks from many glass companies -- Bryce, Cambridge, Central, Duncan & Miller, Fostoria, Heisey, Imperial, Lancaster, Mid-Atlantic, Morgantown, Paden City, Tiffin, Viking, West Virginia Glass Specialty, Westmoreland, and Weston, in cut patterns, etched glass with and without gold trim, painted and enameled glass, and silver deposit patterns. Over 200 images, most from original catalog pages and ad copy, display these decorative patterns and techniques. Values are provided in the captions.