The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age by Neil Price games from Mozart’s score

from Mozart’s score

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The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age by Neil Price games from Mozart’s scoreDATE OF RELEASE: 3 SEPT 2026 Almost everyone has heard of the Vikings: scouring the coasts of Europe in their longships, with plunder and pillage. Those raiders were real and deserved their reputation, but in fact they were only ever a small minority of the Scandinavians. Viking comes from the Old Norse word for pirate, and while we may use that label for every Northerner of the eighth to eleventh centuries, in reality they followed many different