Barraclough, E.R (2024) Embers of the hands: hidden histories of the Viking Age. Profile Books, London. ISBN 9781788166744
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2024 16:21 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2024 16:21 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16550 |
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