Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Vikin George H. Schwartz --Karl Ove Knausgård

--Karl Ove Knausgård

Two human groups: the Qeng Ho

in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary

As our modern lives demand more and more from us

only to rip it up again

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Vikin George H. Schwartz --Karl Ove KnausgårdIn imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. Instead, in the time stopping soils, water, and ice of the North, Eleanor Barraclough excavates a preserved lost world, one that reimagines a misunderstood society.