02376cam a2200373 i 4500 1906863339 TxAuBib 20250204120000.0 250103t20252024||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324089230 hardback 1324089237 hardback (OCoLC)1437526493 TxAuBib rda Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund, author. Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking age / Eleanor Barraclough. First American edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2025. ©2024. 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in 2024 by Profile Books with the title: Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking age in Great Britain. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20250204. Civilization, Viking. Vikings fast Social life and customs. Vikings. fast Scandinavia History To 1397. Europe History 476-1492. TXKIP