Embers of the Hands
Autor: Eleanor Barraclough
Número de Páginas: 378Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice A Times (UK) Best History Book of the Year “Endlessly fascinating, authoritatively informative and, above all, great fun.” —Heather O’Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement 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. 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...
