El oro de los vikingos : Historias ocultas de la era vikinga

A comb preserved in a bog, engraved with the first evidence of a new writing system. A pagan shrine hidden beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband who spent too much time at the tavern. Scribbles on birch bark, carved by a child with a vivid imagination. From these small clues, Eleanor Barraclough breathes new life into the vast, rich, and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders, and saga heroes. Here are also the lives of ordinary people: merchants, children, artisans, slaves, seers, travelers, and storytellers who shaped the medieval Norse world. Immerse yourself in the everyday life of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and expanded from the Scandinavian lands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, and the rivers and steppes of Eurasia, reaching even the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphate. In The Gold of the Vikings we will discover an amazing, vast and unexpected Viking world, where desire and intimacy were as decisive as war.