EMBERS OF THE HANDS

Brilliantly written evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation Tom Holland author of Pax and co host of The Rest is History A wondrous gorgeously written book Rebecca Wragg Sykes author of Kindred Splendid an intimate portrait of the Viking Age Highly recommended Neil Price author of The Children of Ash and Elm A History of the Vikings Takes us beyond the familiar into a real visceral far more satisfying Viking world Dan SnowImagine 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