Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking Age
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund2025
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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.
Main title:
Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking Age / Eleanor Barraclough.
Author:
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2025.
Collation:
384 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788166751 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
948.022948.022 BARR
Language:
English
BRN:
6829668