''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
