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Embers of the Hands

Embers of the Hands Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

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Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction A Times best History Book of the Year 2024 It's time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child. From these tiny embers, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders and saga heroes. Here are the lives of ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, enslaved people, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world. Immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate. 'Every page glittering with insight... [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook 'Brilliantly written... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland

Book information

ISBN: 9781788166744
Publisher: Profile
Imprint: Profile Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 948.022
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 3257
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 616g
Height: 164mm
Width: 242mm
Spine width: 36mm