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Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking Age / Eleanor Barraclough.

Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund, (author.).

Summary:

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." -- From dust jacket flap.

Record details

ISBN: 9781324089230
ISBN: 1324089237
Physical Description: 373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2025.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Kindling -- Beginnings -- Love -- Travel -- Belief -- Bodies -- Home -- Play -- Unfreedom -- Endings.