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PREVIEW: ENGLAND: Author Eleanor Barraclough, "Embers of the Hands," finds the end of the Viking Age symbolized in an unmended garment on a female corpse. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: ENGLAND: Author Eleanor Barraclough, "Embers of the Hands," finds the end of the Viking Age symbolized in an unmended garment on a female corpse. More later tonight..

2011 Bayeux Tapestry

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:07.3

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0:08.7

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0:18.2

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0:20.2

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0:22.0

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0:22.6

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0:25.1

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0:26.8

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0:29.0

Customer received a gratuity.

0:30.6

This is John Batchel, a conversation with Eleanor Barakloff, her book, Embers of the

0:36.5

Hands, Hidden Histories of the Viking Age. Eleanor Barakloff, her book Embers of the Hands, Hidden Histories of the Viking Age.

0:40.3

Eleanor takes objects found in graves, buried in graveyards, and studies them to learn what the culture was of the Viking Age, 7.50 AD to 1100 A.D.

0:53.4

But this anecdote comes from the early 15th century, the end of the Greenland colony.

1:00.6

Greenland, in the news again.

1:03.6

One particular item fascinates and most compels Eleanor for an interpretation.

1:11.5

A garment, a rough garment, on a corpse in a graveyard.

1:16.2

And it's ripped.

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