PART ONE:

THE VIKINGS


AD 1001-1043


Night-shadow darkens, sending from the north fierce hailstorms to punish warriors.
Everything is hardship in the earthly realm.
The fates’ creation changes the world under the heavens.
Here wealth is fleeting, friendship is fleeting, man himself is fleeting, kinship is fleeting.
All the underpinning of the earth will become as nothing.


From “The Wanderer”
Anglo-Saxon, late 9th/early 10th century


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