Tag: Vikings

Once described by 8th century Mercian king Offa as “a terrible place,” it’s an odd, out-of-the-way part of the world.

The Protestant work ethic here was very familiar to me. Johannes hadn’t had it, and probably not Magnus either; they had been cheerful men with more dreams than they had will to realize them, at least my grandfather. My mother’s mother had the work ethic, and she had passed it on to my mother, who […]