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The Rest Is HistorySeptember 30, 2021
103. The Norse Sagas
About This Episode
In today’s episode, Tom and Dominic are joined by Dr Eleanor Barraclough as they sail across the Atlantic in a dragon-ship, bound for the epic world of the Norse sagas. What society did the Vikings set up in Iceland? How did they get to America? Why were they always so violent? *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook
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Books Mentioned
Beyond the Northlands
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
“A book about the Vikings' kind of worldview and their sense of geography and their sense of all these kind of monsters and weird lands that were out there.”
ASIN: 0198701292
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“There's a text called Landnama Book, which means the Book of Settlement, which describes those first settlers and where they go and where they settle.”
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“You can tell them about your book and your brilliant book, The World of the Vikings.”
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“It's a classic, but it's incredibly, it's tragic. It's complicated. It's got beautiful relationships between the two central male characters. It's got a lot of very strong female characters. It's got supernatural elements. It's got politics.”
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