{"product_id":"vanished-vikings","title":"Vanished Vikings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Vikings founded a society in Greenland which would last for almost 500 years. Then,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003equite suddenly, it disappeared. What happened? Icelandic historian Valur Gunnarsson travels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough southern Greenland as he attempts to solve the greatest mystery in Nordic history. He \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enavigates icebergs on an open boat, meets the locals, stays with a modern-day Norse settler on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea reindeer farm and examines the church where the last Viking wedding was held before \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeverything went dark. Was it climate change, plague, class-struggle, trade wars or foreign \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einvasion that did them in? Did they try to leave before it was too late? And if so, where did \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethey go? The answer to the riddle of the lost Vikings might just tell us something about how \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto navigate our own perilous times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The narrative alternates seamlessly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebetween a diary, a travelogue, a discussion of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea historical mystery and a commentary on current \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eevents, creating a stimulating mosaic of the situation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof Greenland in the past and in the present.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSverrir Jakobsson, professor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehistory, University of Iceland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valur Gunnarsson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66886263800112,"sku":"9789935574084","price":5490.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1090\/3582\/files\/Vanished-Vikings-kapumynd.png?v=1780323859","url":"https:\/\/www.salka.is\/products\/vanished-vikings","provider":"Salka - bókaútgáfa og bókabúð","version":"1.0","type":"link"}