The Norse Sagas (TRIH ep 103)
874 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host Eleanor Rosamond Barraclough to discuss Viking voyages, the Icelandic sagas and how later medieval Icelanders recorded their world. Barraclough outlines the settlement of Iceland around the late ninth century, archaeological dating tied to a volcanic eruption circa 870–871, and the mix of Norwegian and British Isles ancestry among early settlers. The conversation covers Greenland’s settlement (c. 985), the Vinland voyages around AD 1000 and the L'Anse au...
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- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Viking Age (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)
- Diamond Sutra printed (868)