Chalke Talks for PERIOD: Vikings

• 96. THE VIKING AGE OF EXPLORATION
  Dan Snow ( 2019 )
  Published: 14th Jul 2021

  Dan Snow tells the story of the Viking expansion across the North Atlantic to the New World. What does the archeology tell us? How did they navigate across the vast expanse of ocean and why did they use reindeer droppings as a preservative? Dan Snow has followed the Vikings from Estonia to Newfoundland and here […]

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• 177. Viking Britain: An Exploration
  Tom William ( 2018 )
  Published: 11th Feb 2022

  To many, the word ‘Viking’ brings to mind scenes of violence and pillage, of marauders from beyond the sea rampaging around the British coastline in the last gloomy centuries before the Norman Conquest. Thomas Williams, however, offers a vital evocation of a forgotten world, its echoes in later history and its implications for the present, […]

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