Great Norse Exodus: The 874 Settlement of Iceland and the Flight from Harald Fairhair

What drives a human being to pack everything they own into an open wooden boat and sail toward the edge of the known world?For the Norse chieftains of the late ninth century, the answer was not gold, glory, or the thrill of the raid. It was the suffocating weight of a crown. In The Great Norse Exodus: The Settlement of Iceland (c. 874) and the Flight from Harald Fairhair, historian Winston Maddox ...