Discusses the nervous tension and fear among leaders and soldiers before battles between the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, highlighting the absence of these aspects in heroic poems but their presence in Anglo-Saxon sources.
Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard it's debatable whether things will be any less horrific for Scandinavia's neighbors