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On this episode of Newt's World, the Vikings, those mythic, larger than life Scandinavians,

who left their homeland in search of opportunity and would reshape Europe and the United States.

In his new book, The Viking Heart, How Scandinavians Conquered the World,

Arthur Herman tells a compelling historical narrative with cutting edge archaeological discoveries

and DNA research to trace the epic story of this remarkable and truly diverse people.

And he shows how the Scandinavian experience as universal meaning and how we can still be inspired

by their spirit and strength of community today. So I'm really pleased to welcome my guest,

Arthur Herman. He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of nine books,

including The New York Times Best Seller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World,

and Gandhi and Churchill, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Arthur, thank you for joining me to talk about The Viking Heart, How Scandinavians Conquered the World.

Now, to be fair, you are Norwegian descent on both sides of your family tree, aren't you?

The rules of full disclosure insist that I do fess up to that. I mean, on my father's side,

there's also German as well as Norwegian. It's my great-great-grandfather who emigrated

from Norway to the United States in the 1850s, and then my mother's parents came over from Norway.

But the book, as you know, is not just about Norwegians, it's also about Swedes, about Danes,

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