The Wolf Age reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire, offering a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts. It skillfully weaves sagas and skaldic poetry to vividly portray the world of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. The book focuses on key figures like Ethelred, Sweyn Forkbeard, and Canute, detailing their battles and the forging of a powerful empire.
Fury of the Vikings by Dominic Sandbrook offers a comprehensive and engaging exploration of the Viking age, from their mythological origins to the end of their era. The book delves into Viking raids on Anglo-Saxon England, their role in the creation of Russia, and their settlements in Iceland and Greenland. It is part of the Adventures in Time series, written in an accessible style suitable for both young and adult readers.
This book provides a sweeping historical narrative of the past millennium, examining the interconnectedness of global civilizations through trade, exploration, conflict, and the exchange of ideas. It offers a comprehensive perspective on the evolution of human history, highlighting the complexity and diversity of the global experience.
Following the bloody St Brice’s Day Massacre, of the 13th of November 1002, which saw King Æthelred brutally exterminating the Danes from England, the Vikings were hungry for revenge. None more so than the terrifying Scandinavian King, Sweyn Forkbeard. Having capitalised on his famous father, Harold Bluetooth’s unification of Norway and Denmark, through his aggressive christianisation of the formerly pagan peoples there, Sweyn had built up a formidable force. It was this power that Æthelred had unwisely taunted, underestimating the might of the Danes. He would pay the price only a few short months later when Sweyn’s terrible fleet landed at Wilton Abbey in Wessex - one of the greatest symbols of the House of Alfred the Great - to bleed England dry, and destroy her King. Time and time again, from this date onwards, Sweyn’s Danish raids would devastate England, even going so far as to lock the Archbishop of Canterbury in a cage…by 1013 Æthelred’s reign was essentially over, his family having fled to Normandy, and England under Danish rule. But then, the death of Sweyn Forkbeard would change everything, setting in motion another titanic war of succession, this time pitting the Scandinavian Cnut against Æthelred’s son Edmund Ironside. Who would triumph in this climactic clash of would-be kings?
Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the revenge of the vikings and the rise of Cnut, as 1066 and the Battle of Hastings loom into view...
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