Embers of the Hands

Longlisted for the 2025 Women''s Prize for Non-FictionA Times best History Book of the Year 2024It''s time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child.From these tiny embers,...