Embers of the hands

Eleanor Barraclough

Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country. Yet while such characters define the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. This is the history of all the other people - children, enslaved people, seers, artisans, travellers, writers - who inhabited the medieval Nordic world. Encompassing not just Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but also Iceland, Greenland, parts of the British Isles, Continental Europe and Russia, this is a history of a Viking Age filled with real people of different ages, genders and ethnicities, as told through the traces that they left behind, from hairstyles to place names, love-notes to gravestones.

Author(s): Barraclough, Eleanor
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 19/09/2024
Pagination: 384 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Profile Books
Published By: Profile Books
Book Classification: European history: the Vikings|Material culture|History
Dimensions: 236x162x40
Weight: 619
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781788166744