EAN: 9781782278351

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"The turbulent age that straddles the first millennium is brought to life in a history worthy of a modern television epic." -Financial Times Thrilling history provides a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly to life perfect for fans of Dan Jones The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts readers in the mindset of Vikings providing new insight into their goals values and what they chose to live and die for. The Wolf Age takes readers on a thrilling journey through the bloody shared history of England and Scandinavia and on across early medieval Europe from the wild Norwegian fjords to the wealthy cities of Muslim Andalusia. Warfare plotting backstabbing and bribery abound as Tore Skeie skillfully weaves sagas and skaldic poetry with breathless dramatization as he entertainingly brings the world of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons to vivid life. In the eleventh century the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers to get soldiers they need silver and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all the lands of the north into a brutal struggle for supremacy and survival that will shatter kingdoms and forge an empire…

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