Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages through the Viking World

Davide Zori’s Age of Wolf and Wind travels through the Viking world using archaeology to connect familiar narratives of raiding and expansion with the places and objects left behind. From Scandinavia to Britain and the North Atlantic, the stories of ships and kings are set beside traces of settlement, food, burial and everyday work.

A feast could help turn wealth into political influence; a grave can reveal ideas about death and a changing religious landscape. Zori moves between these questions and larger developments, including the rise of Danish royal power, the settlement of Iceland and the Norse accounts of Vínland. Archaeology and new scientific approaches bring the lives behind those journeys into view, including what happened after a ship reached shore.