The Wolf Age : The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

The Wolf Age : The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea EmpireAuthor: Skeie, Tore, McCullough, Alison Humanities Published on 6 October 2022 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom. Paperback 384 pages 128 x 197 x 33 340g In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all the lands of the north into a brutal

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