In this episode of the podcast “‘Tis But A Scratch”: Fact & Fiction About the Middle Ages, co-hosts Richard Abels and his wife Ellen Abels explain who and what “Vikings” really were, what historical factors contributed to the advent of the Viking Age (mid-eighth to mid-eleventh century), and how the modern conception of Vikings was invented by nationalist historians in the nineteenth century on the basis of saga literature from the High Middle Ages and the chronicles of traumatized Frankish, Irish, and Anglo-Saxon monks.
The episode concludes with a case study of a ninth-century Viking chieftain named Weland, who, after ravaging Frisia and Wessex, was hired by the West Frankish king Charles the Bald to rid his realm of a different band of Vikings encamped on an island in the Seine River.
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Check out more video episodes from Tis But A Scratch: Fact and Fiction About the Middle Ages on their YouTube channel.
In this episode of the podcast “‘Tis But A Scratch”: Fact & Fiction About the Middle Ages, co-hosts Richard Abels and his wife Ellen Abels explain who and what “Vikings” really were, what historical factors contributed to the advent of the Viking Age (mid-eighth to mid-eleventh century), and how the modern conception of Vikings was invented by nationalist historians in the nineteenth century on the basis of saga literature from the High Middle Ages and the chronicles of traumatized Frankish, Irish, and Anglo-Saxon monks.
The episode concludes with a case study of a ninth-century Viking chieftain named Weland, who, after ravaging Frisia and Wessex, was hired by the West Frankish king Charles the Bald to rid his realm of a different band of Vikings encamped on an island in the Seine River.
Check out more video episodes from Tis But A Scratch: Fact and Fiction About the Middle Ages on their YouTube channel.
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