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The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today

About the Author

Else Roesdahl is Professor Emerita in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and an honorary doctor of Trinity College, Dublin and the University of York.