Embers Of The Hands

A new and original history of the Viking Age, told through the objects that defined the lives of its people -from powerful leaders to naughty teenagers A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child.