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ANNEXING GREENLAND AND THE VIKING GHOSTS: 8/8: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Hardcover – August 29, 2024

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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ANNEXING GREENLAND AND THE VIKING GHOSTS:     8/8: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Hardcover – August 29, 2024 

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slash geo. I'm John Bathurst, visiting with Professor Eleanor Barakoff, embers of the hands,

1:06.1

hidden histories of the Viking Age. The Viking Age closed over time or didn't close because it's still with us.

1:12.6

Everybody who knows Lord of the Rings well knows the Viking world.

1:16.6

We're talking about a language and a time that's magical.

1:21.6

However, there's also what I find in Eleanor's closing remarks, a sadness to it, because the world ended.

1:31.1

And when did it end?

1:32.2

It's the story we're now approaching.

1:35.9

Eleanor, where is Harleov-Ness?

1:39.2

So Harriyov-Ness is right at the southern tip of Greenland.

1:45.1

And Greenland, for me, is one of the most fascinating parts of Norse Viking Age history.

1:52.6

It's the bit that I think I love the most.

1:55.6

I've spent a lot of time researching out there.

1:57.9

It's very wild.

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