Kategoria BISAC: History >> Western Europe - General

Norway's roots claw into icy tundras where Stone Age hunters etched petroglyphs on fjord walls, chasing seals till Bronze Age boats hauled tin for tools. Vikings erupted around 793, their knarrs knifing rivers from Dublin to the Dnieper, settling Orkney outposts while skalds sang of Odin hangs and Thor's hammer cracks. The Christian cross crept in with Olaf's sword around 1000, knitting jarls into kings under Harald Fairhair's tangled mane, but the Hanseatic grip on Bergen's cod trade squeezed the life from local lords, leaving wharves stacked with stockfish and secrets.Plague hit like a...