SEA WOLVES

The word "Viking" isn't a people - it's a job description. Most of the Scandinavians who went raiding also farmed, fished, and traded the rest of the year. But across three centuries, that seasonal habit sent Norse sailors further than almost anyone else in the medieval world: raiding England, founding Normandy, ruling from Kiev to Constantinople, settling Iceland and Greenland, and reaching North America five hundred years before Columbus.

SEA WOLVES tells that story fast: thirteen turning points, three centuries, one people who reshaped a continent from the outside in. A monastery burned that shocked all of Christian Europe. A fugitive king hiding in a swamp who came back to redraw the map. A Viking dynasty that conquered England twice - once as raiders, once as Norman knights who'd forgotten they were Vikings at all.

Written with the pace and voice of a great storyteller rather than a textbook, this is Viking history for readers who want the real story - accurate, vivid, and built to move - without wading through a saga's worth of names to get it.

Inside you'll find:
- The thirteen defining turning points of the Viking Age, from Lindisfarne to Hastings
- Seven deeper-dive chapters: life aboard the longship, the raiding-trading-settling economy, women's legal status in Norse society, mythology and runes, law and kingship, the silver trade routes to Baghdad, and the Vikings' lasting legacy in language and DNA
- A cast of characters, a quick-reference timeline, and a glossary

Whether you're new to this history or already know your Althing from your Ragnarök, SEA WOLVES moves at a pace that respects your time.