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Embers of the Hands

Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

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Embers of the Hands

De: Eleanor Barraclough
Narrado por: Eleanor Barraclough
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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.

©2024 Eleanor Barraclough (P)2025 Profile Books Limited
Civilización Europa Medioevo Mundial Vikingos Escandinavia Nórdico Región polar Dinamarca

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Lovely book

Beautiful writing and narration! I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I have Norwegian heritage and learned a lot.

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Author is an excellent reader!

This is an excellent recording of a book that I really liked but didn’t love, mostly because the author was so incredibly honest and incisive about how little we can discern or conclude from the scant historical and archaeological records about the lives of ordinary people. (And about how what we can discern we must behold in all its complexity.) No knock to the book - it’s astute, insightful, and truthful given what we have to go off of! But worth knowing before you, reader, commit.

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A gorgeously written history

This book is a stop-you-in-your-tracks listen. It is captivating, beautifully written—literary, poetic and playful—and brings the era and people to life with a sense of wonder. And Barraclough’s narration is filled with joy for her subject. Simply stunning.

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Smart, caring, and fascinating.

The people amid the dates and things. I loved the details, the frequent smile in the narrator’s voice, and the care taken to honor the small lives along with the better-known.

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Disappointing

The story/history got lost in the breathless narration and the overly poetic rhetoric. Maybe she was trying to make a book on scant historical evidence. Or maybe she was trying to write a term paper.

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If Viking means a lot about Iceland and Greenland to you, this is your book

It feels like someone’s PHD thesis about Iceland, with some bits of well known Viking age info thrown in. The writer did try to add some life to the story, but didnt find satisfying. And if this was a drinking game with any time iceland or greenland was mentioned, you would be on the floor comatose within a hour.

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