The Northman's Fury

One summer’s day in AD 793, death arrived from the sea. The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings, sea-borne attackers who brought terror to northern Europe.

Yet for all their reputation as bloodthirsty warriors, the Vikings possessed a sophisticated culture that produced art of great beauty, literature of abiding power and kingdoms of surprising endurance.

Philip Parker describes how and why a region at the edge of Europe came to-dominate and to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries. In the depth of its research and the thrill of its storytelling, The Northmen’s Fury is an unparalleled history of this utterly fascinating people.