Lars Brownworth is a historian who specialises in the Vikings and the Byzantine Empire. His bestselling book The Sea Wolves charts the raiders’ bloody rise from Lindisfarne to the gates of Constantinople. The creator of the pioneering 12 Byzantine Rulers podcast, he also wrote The Normans and Lost to the West, and has appeared in documentaries on history’s greatest medieval sieges.
Tomorrow, he is coming on the show to break down the history of the Vikings: who they were, where they came from, how far they travelled and what happened to them.
Drop your questions for Lars in the comments below.
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so having colder climate and crop failure the Viking’s had the opportunity with early medieval warming the need to explore combined with a mythology that relished battle made them motivated and determined to target comfortable complacent neighbours ( er 2026?)
Is the word “viking” synonymous with the “scandinavian” population of the same era? I gather there is some debate about this