New to this board, can anyone recommend a book/site or anything

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Play M&B Warband with Viking Conquest and Brytenwalda. Several hours per day.

>>2383965
http://pastebin.com/kL8YuzXr

>>2383965
Ever check out Hurstwic? Great resource. http://www.hurstwic.com/history/text/history.htm

You could always read any of the Sagas. I'm currently reading a book of the Icelandic Sagas and it's pretty neat. It's amazing how relatable the characters are.

>>2384301
>VC
Yes
>Boringblanda
No

>>2383965
That Arab dude who traveled from Western Morocco to like India has a good little account of meeting them in the Black Sea to trade

>>2385288
Both are trash lmao

>>2385343
VC was shit when it came out. Reforged edition is great.

>>2385324
ibn battuta

another arab traveler though, ibn fadlan, wrote his own travel account during which he travels through the kievan rus and writes extensively about the volga vikings and their customs

>>2385324
>>2385422

Not OP but those sound really cool. The largest hoard of Abbasid coins was actually found in Sweden, which I found interesting.

>>2385511
Basically Ibn Battuta said they're tall, physically appealing, and in great shape but are also dirty degenerated who fuck each other in the dirt and are constantly drunk

>>2385539
Dirty, or dirty dirty by arabian standards? IIRC, the Norse had regular, ritual baths. However, since it used standing water, Ibn Battuta still considered it filthy, as in Muslim tradition, when bathing, the body shouldn't sit in dirty water but rather have clean water poured over it.

>>2385511
I've read something similar in 'The Age of the Vikings' by Anders Winroth. I believe he wrote that a measurable fraction of all silver coins found in Viking-Age, Scandinavian hoards were Arabic Dirhams, minted in places like Iran and India.

Honestly, I think the trade network the historic Norse had going is way more interesting than their raiding.

>>2385635
I think part of his account is that the viking men passed around a bowl of water to wash themselves in. They would blow their noses and everything in the water and share it.

>>2385650
His record was actually ambiguous as to whether or not they dumped out the water with each use or just kept using the same bowl. I think it's more likely than not that they emptied out the bowl after each use.

>>2385635
>Honestly, I think the trade network the historic Norse had going is way more interesting than their raiding.
well, it wasn't uncommon for the vikings to engage in either raiding, trading or both at the same time. But yes, the Vikings were a big presence on the Volga from the 800s to about the 1100s. Janet Martin's Medieval Russia describes the trade nicely in the beginning of her book. Alternatively, sverre bagge's cross and sceptre: rise of teh scandinavian kingdoms probably also has a more extended discussion on the trade.