With only two weeks left to see the British Museum’s Vikings Life and Legend exhibition, (closes 22nd June 2014), I set off from work last Friday evening to find out what life was really like in the Viking Age. Hungry for status, power and global domination, it turns out that our Scandinavian predecessors had a lot in common with the movers and shakers of today’s corporate world.
The British Museum The Lewis Chessmen, berserkers. Late 12th century, Uig, Lewis, Scotland. Walrus ivory © The Trustees of the British Museum.