Lords of the Salt Road: The Norse Earls of Orkney and the Viking World blowing horn Prominent ring carefully made in

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Egerkrans re-tells the most exciting and imaginative sagas of the Norse mythology: from the creation myth in which the first giant Ymer is hacked to pieces by Odin and his brothers

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Lords of the Salt Road: The Norse Earls of Orkney and the Viking World blowing horn Prominent ring carefully made inFor more than four centuries the Norse Earls of Orkney ruled a large swathe of Britain, from Shetland down to the Isle of Man. This new book draws a wealth of contemporary sources to expertly bring the violent and often dramatic story of these Viking rulers to life. Lords of the Salt Road reveals the dramatic history of the Norse earls of Orkney, who owed their allegiance to the Kings of Norway and ruled their own semi autonomous empire with lands in