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Hello and welcome to the history of Vikings.

On this podcast, we've discussed many elements of the Vikings, their military outputs,

and their daily lives from forts to trade towns.

Well, today we will be discussing Viking encampments, something that is a very

fascinating element of sort of the Viking story, if you will, and also something that supported

and enabled a lot of their popular rating and trading outputs. I'm joined today by a returning guest, Dr. Christian

Koymans, who is the author of a book entitled Monarchs and Hydracks, the conceptual development

of Viking activity across the Frankish realm. Dr. Koymans is a British Academy Research Fellow at

the University of Liverpool, having obtained his doctorate from the

University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Christian Coyman's welcome back to the history of Vikings.

Hi, Noah.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me back.

I'm so glad to have you back on the podcast, Chris, if I may.

Today, I'm really excited to dive into our topic of conversation,

Viking encampments. This is something as I was researching and writing my own book about

Viking activity across the Frankish realm, something that I encountered quite a bit. And this is also

something that was described

in your book. I'd like to point listeners to an article that you've written. I've included a

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