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2. Unearthing Secret Viking Everyday Lives - ELEANOR BARRACLOUGH (HOUR ONE) 090726
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Unearthing Secret Viking Everyday Lives
Eleanor Barraclough, author of Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, Part One: Barraclough discusses her archaeological methodology of using ordinary objects like runic wooden messages, skull fragments, and gaming pieces to explore the personal, human lives of Vikings. She details early Viking movements, from the shocking 793 AD Lindisfarne monastery raid to their subsequent conquest of England and diaspora expansion eastward into Russia and Kiev. She also highlights the Salme ship burials in Estonia as a key unsolved historical mystery. (1)
Unearthing Secret Viking Everyday Lives
Eleanor Barraclough, author of Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, Part One: Barraclough discusses her archaeological methodology of using ordinary objects like runic wooden messages, skull fragments, and gaming pieces to explore the personal, human lives of Vikings. She details early Viking movements, from the shocking 793 AD Lindisfarne monastery raid to their subsequent conquest of England and diaspora expansion eastward into Russia and Kiev. She also highlights the Salme ship burials in Estonia as a key unsolved historical mystery. (1)