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    Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England

    Jun 07, 2024 3 minutes

    By Eleanor Parker
    ISBN: 978-1784537869
    Bloomsbury, 2018
    £15.99 (paperback)

    www.bloomsbury.com

    Stories are more durable than we tend to acknowledge. Although a story can morph beyond immediate recognition in the course of a few hundred years, remaining elements can nonetheless provide us with clues about the distant historical circumstances from which that story emerged. Eleanor Parker's book is a testament to the durability of stories, the complexity of stories, and the infinite value in studying stories in order to

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