
Embers of the Hands
Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
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Eleanor Barraclough
In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority.
Instead, in the time-stopping soils, water, and ice of the North, Eleanor Barraclough excavates a preserved lost world, one that reimagines a misunderstood society. By examining artifacts of the past—remnants of wooden gaming boards, elegant antler combs, doodles by imaginative children and bored teenagers, and runes that reveal hidden loves, furious curses, and drunken spouses summoned home from the pub—Barraclough illuminates life in the medieval Nordic world as not just a world of rampaging warriors, but as full of globally networked people with recognizable concerns.
This is the history of all the people—children, enslaved people, seers, artisans, travelers, writers—who inhabited the medieval Nordic world. Encompassing not just Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, but also Iceland, Greenland, 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.
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Author is an excellent reader!
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Lovely book
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Not about battles and kings or raiders. But the everyday people of the north
Fascinating
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Nuggets and glimpses
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A gorgeously written history
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Smart, caring, and fascinating.
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Couldn't put it down!
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Enjoyed both content & delivery
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Disappointing
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If Viking means a lot about Iceland and Greenland to you, this is your book
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