Fire and Fury: Vikings and the Birth of a Kingdom
In 845, a Viking raid on Easter Sunday forces Paris to pay its first ransom in gold. It won’t be the last. As Charlemagne’s empire collapses into civil war, West Francia fragments into chaos—and the Vikings come.
Follow the story of an empire divided at the Treaty of Verdun, the desperate fortification of Paris’s bridges, and the legendary Great Siege of 885-886 that lasts nearly a year. Watch a young count named Odo defend his city against impossible odds, then rise from the ashes to become king. And discover how the threat from the north reshapes medieval politics forever, leading to the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte and the dynasty that would rule France for the next 800 years.
This is the age that made modern Europe. This is Fire and Fury.
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