Viking London

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Thomas Williams. Viking London

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Maps

Introduction

I. Lundenwic

II. Lundenburh

III. Lundúnir

IV. Lundúnaborg

V. Vikings Drink Tea

Footnotes

Notes, sources and further reading

Abbreviations and Notes

Index

About the Author

Also by Thomas Williams

About the Publisher

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For Pru

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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the generations pass.9

The Ruin, the Old English poem from which the lines above are translated, describes the remains of a Roman city. The poet here has turned the experience of living amongst ruins into an elegiac romanticism weighed down with fate – what the English knew as wyrd (‘weird’) and the Norse as urðr; it was a sense, shared amongst the peoples of northern Europe, that all roads led inevitably into darkness – ‘that all glory’, as Tolkien put it, ‘ends in night’.10

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