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Vikings
Books about Vikings or set during the Viking Age (approx, late 8th century to mid 11th century).
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The fact is that in the Vikings’ own language, Old Norse, víkingr just
meant pirate, marauder. It wasn’t an ethnic label, it was a job description. And what this means for us is that if you come across headlines – as these days you very often do – which say something like ‘Vikings! Not just raiders and looters any more!’ then the headlines are wrong. If people weren’t raiding and looting (and land-grabbing, and collecting protection money), then they had stopped being Vikings. They were just Sca
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A sword age, a wind age, a wolf age. No longer is there mercy among men.
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― The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
― The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
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