This chapter examines Viking culture, discussing findings on Viking skeletons, tattoos, and eye makeup. It also explores the reliability of eyewitness accounts and describes Ibn Fadlan's observations of the Vikings on their trading voyages.
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