Life and death in the Viking age

Who was the first Viking? Why did Norse people believe they could turn into animals? And what does all of this have to do with the fall of the western Roman empire? In this episode, Neil Price speaks to James Osborne about facets of the Viking age that go beyond boats and battles and asks: what do we really know about life and death in the Viking Age?

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To find out more about life in the Viking Age, you can listen to our four-part podcast series on the Viking invasion of Anglo-Saxon England in the second half of the ninth century, with historian Eleanor Barraclough: bit.ly/4AuA1q6

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