Viking Britain author Thomas Williams returns with a brief history
of the interaction between the Vikings and the British to tell the
story of the occupation of London. The Vikings remoulded the world,
changed the language, and upended the dynamics of power and trade.
Monasteries and settlements burned, ancient dynasties were
extinguished. And nowhere in these islands saw more aggression than
London. Between 842 and 1016, the city was subjected repeatedly to
serious assault. In this short history, bestselling historian
Thomas Williams recounts the profound impact Viking raiders from
the North had on London. Delving into London's darkest age, he
charts how the city was transformed in this period by immigrants
and natives, kings and commoners, into the fulcrum of national
power and identity. London emerged as a hub of trade, production
and international exchange, a financial centre, a political prize,
a fiercely independent and often intractable cauldron of spirited
and rowdy townsfolk: a place that, a thousand years ago, already
embodied much of what London was to become and still remains. This
remarkable book takes the reader into a city of spectres, to its
ancient past, to timeworn street names hidden beneath concrete
underpasses, to the crypts of old churches, to a stretch of the old
river bank, or the depths of museum collections. Nothing is lost in
the city. And memories of the Vikings hover like a miasma in these
places, blowing across the mud and shingle on the Thames foreshore
- ghosts of Viking London.
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