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Embers of the Hands

Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

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Embers of the Hands

By: Eleanor Barraclough
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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.

For the first time, you can immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of extraordinary culture which spanned centuries and spread from the edge of the North American continent to the Russian steppes, from the Arctic wastelands to the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphate.

©2024 Eleanor Barraclough (P)2024 Profile Books Ltd Medieval Scandinavia Viking Polar Region Norse
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Lively and engaging!

Wonderfully informative and richly detailed account throwing an unaccustomed light on the 'everyday folk' that history so often neglects - very moving at times.

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Brilliant and insightful

This fascinating book tells the stories of everyday people through the artefacts, texts and graves they left behind. Well worth a read!

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