The Sea Wolves: Viking Expansion and Assimilation — Why disruption became rule
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Author: Lars Brownworth
This episode explores The Sea Wolves by Lars Brownworth as a systems-level analysis of how longship-enabled mobility, wealth extraction, and fragmented medieval institutions influenced behavior, belief, and political outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or battles alone, the episode shows why Viking expansion persisted — and how it connected to larger economic, political, and cultural structures stretching from Scandinavia to Byzantium and the North…
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