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Rowdy Geirsson Author Of The Impudent Edda

From Rowdy's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Author Viking enthusiast Norumbegan Swedophile Metalhead Humorist

Rowdy's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Rowdy Geirsson Why Rowdy loves this book

This book paints a great, lively portrait of a city and its empire just before its downfall. Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Ferdinand (and the rest of the Austrian nobility, of course) all spent time in Vienna in the lead-up to WW1. 

By Frederic Morton ,

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1 author picked Thunder at Twilight as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Text: Swedish


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Embers of the Hands

Rowdy Geirsson Author Of The Impudent Edda

From Rowdy's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Viking enthusiast Norumbegan Swedophile Metalhead Humorist

Rowdy's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Rowdy Geirsson Why Rowdy loves this book

Very engrossing history of the "vikings" that focuses on the regular people and their lives rather than famous lords and ladies. You feel closer to the people of the era reading this book.

By Eleanor Barraclough ,

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1 author picked Embers of the Hands as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority.

Instead, in the time-stopping soils, water, and ice of the North, Eleanor Barraclough excavates a preserved lost world, one that reimagines a misunderstood society. By examining artifacts of the past-remnants of wooden gaming boards, elegant antler combs, doodles by imaginative children and bored teenagers, and runes that reveal hidden loves, furious curses,…


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