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The Hello and welcome to the history of Vikings.

When one thinks of the Viking age, the date range of circa 793 to 1066 comes to mind.

Monastery raids across England, Ireland, and the Frankish kingdoms of Charlemagne and his descendants have been

depicted in historical dramas and documentaries on major television networks. But what about the

forgotten Vikings? I'm talking about a broader, more nuanced perspective on the Viking Age.

Pre-793 Monastery raids, Viking activity in the Baltic,

and the role of non-combatants versus traditional view of Viking solely as raiders. With me to discuss

this and more is Alex Harvey, an archaeologist's collections manager at Hocklington District Heritage Trust and

Tudor for medievalists.net.

He is also the author of a number of early medieval historical and archaeological books,

including the topic for today's chat, forgotten Vikings, new approaches to the Viking Age.

Alex, welcome to the history of Vikings.

Thank you for having me know it. It's a pleasure to be here and talk about the forgotten Vikings.

Pleasure to have you. Pleasure to have you. This conversation is long overdue. I've wanted to have

you on the show for some time. I saw an interview you did with,

with Hilbert, of history with Hilbert. He was actually one of my first guests on the show back in

2018. Oh, brilliant. Yeah, brilliant. Yeah. Hard to believe that was eight years ago now,

but we were just catching up before we hit record that you're in York,

which is a great sort of Viking city to be in. Yeah. Yeah, in Yorvik, as the old Norfolk, as the old

afferwick as my forebears, the old English. It's a great city for early medieval research, I think, generally, even beyond the Viking

age.

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