History Adrift

The Vikings will cleave through Europe's heart, altering the course of world history in their wake. Known as heathens, barbarians, and conquerors, their legacy will be writ across continents. Yet, most indelibly, they will be etched in memory as Pirates. A tempests born of northern seas, reshaping the world

In 793 a group of raiders from the far north will stab the heart of Christendom. For the inhabitance of Europe, this will change everything they know and shake the very foundations of their beliefs. We will be searching for the same answers that bewildered the Europeans so long ago. Who were these people? What did they want? And why wont they leave?

An examination of the history of early Western Piracy. Where did it originate? What did It look like? What has been lost to time? Come with me and see where the history takes us.