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The Sea-King and the Sorceress

Life and Death in the Viking Age

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The Sea-King and the Sorceress

De: Neil Price
Narrado por: Nikolas Salmon
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The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Children of Ash and Elm and award-winning expert on the Vikings brings us even closer to their world

Who do we think of when we think about the Vikings? Most of us are familiar with the seafaring marauders who raided, traded and settled the coasts of Europe between the eighth and eleventh centuries. In fact, those warriors made up only a small minority among a diverse people who had many roles and callings.

In this eye-opening and often moving book, Neil Price takes us on a journey across the Viking world, revealing the complex, varied and richly textured lives of those who inhabited it through the intimate context of their burials. Traversing a vast Scandinavian diaspora that stretched from the eastern Steppe all the way to Newfoundland, we meet townsfolk and farmers, the free and the enslaved, immigrants and diplomats, followers of many gods and the worshippers of one, sea-kings, shamans, sorceresses, and – of course – the ferocious pirates who gave the víkingar their name.

Unexpected encounters along the way challenge received wisdom about Norse culture, spiritual practices and politics, showing how they transformed their times and in doing so were changed themselves. How did a woman of Persian ancestry come to be interred in the richest Viking grave ever found? What do an arctic hunter and a Sámi nomad tell us about a fast-changing society’s notions of identity and belonging? How did these individuals see themselves, and what were their attitudes towards the elderly, infirm and children in their midst?

Drawing on the latest archaeological research and scientific analysis, The Sea-King and the Sorceress brings us closer to understanding the lives and times of the Vikings. The era that bears their name will never seem so simple again.

© Neil Price 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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Price’s The Children of Ash and Elm was The Times History Book of the Year in 2020. This book is at least as good. He has a talent for visual reconstruction; it’s like being with him on these digs, watching as ancient secrets are revealed. Nearly every page brings a surprise, sometimes disturbing, often moving, always profound. (Gerard DeGroot)
The Sea-King and the The Sea-King and the Sorceress Sorceress offers a new and absorbing angle on the Viking world, emphasizing its variety and strangeness, its vast geographical sweep and the multifarious identities that it comprised. Although I’ve read a good many Viking histories, I learnt something new on almost every page of this remarkable book (Carolyne Larrington)
Evocative and unafraid to stray far from conventional narratives, The Sea-King and the Sorceress is peopled with a wide range of Viking characters, whom Neil Price brings vividly and sometimes viscerally to life. The book, travelling far from the literary uplands of the sagas, gives voice (and remembrance) to many who would otherwise have suffered historical oblivion ... [his] bottom-up approach is both logical and engaging. The result is a mosaic that gives the Viking world a clarity and colour that more straightforward histories often lack (Philip Parker)
Vikings have long occupied a secure if bloody niche in our collective imagination: pagan maritime marauders, perpetually furious and forever silhouetted against a burning monastery. If there is a scholar who has emphatically pushed against this cinematic cliché, it is Neil Price. The Sea-King and the Sorceress humanizes that world even further by diving into the distinct histories of 21 people from ancient Norse burial sites (Franz Lids)
This book introduces us to 21 individuals from across the Viking world, ranging from the 700s to the early 12th century, and covering the entire diaspora, from North America to the Byzantine Empire and beyond. By combining archaeological expertise with textual evidence, Price is able to make the most of his knack for bringing the dead to life (Katherine Harvey)
The Sea-King and the Sorceress is a wide- ranging portrait of early medieval Norse people that also explores what new truths Viking burials reveal about that culture. Price surveys everyone, from kings and queens to the servile enslaved, [and his use of] case studies from the diaspora help shed light on activities behind the Vikings' Nordic homeland. Like postcards of a bygone age, they evoke the Viking era in all its splendid variety. Price succeeds admirably in his aim of bringing the Viking Age to life for a general audience We should all be grateful for his efforts (Levi Roach)
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