03393cam a2200457 4500 1859226952 TxAuBib 20250116120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781324089247 1324089245 B0D8RQK723 Amazon ba1acc38-58c1-4fda-be92-feb70ec54cda OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10998331 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund. Embers of the Hands [Libby eBook] : Hidden Histories of the Viking Age. W. W. Norton & Company, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Eastern Europe. Viking history. viking culture. viking society. Scandanavia. Greenland. trinkets. denmark. Iceland. weapons. Vikings. norway. runes. trade. HTML:<p><strong>A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2024<br /> A Kirkus Reviews Editor's Pick<br /> <br /> A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, from mighty leaders to rebellious teenagers, told through their runes and ruins, games and combs, trash and treasure.</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>"Embers of the hands" is a poetic kenning from the Viking Age that referred to gold. But no less precious are the embers that Barraclough blows back to life in this book—those of ordinary lives long past.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-01-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ba1acc38-58c1-4fda-be92-feb70ec54cda&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ba1acc38-58c1-4fda-be92-feb70ec54cda&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)