Matt Lewis is joined by his Gone Medieval co-host Cat Jarman, author of River Kings: the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads.
Told as a riveting story of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, River Kings is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologised voyagers of the north, and of the global medieval world as we know it.
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Castles That Made Britain - Bamburgh ...
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