Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, Eleanor BarracloughNew Paperback It's time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch bark, made by an imaginative child. From these tiny embers, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders

despite the myths that remain

the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all

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Montserrat has always been overlooked

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fascism to feminism and pleasure to anarchy

What does he eat

his name obscured by imperial annals

Iranian-linked politicians

a sinister presence lurks

Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness

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