In AD892, over 300 Viking ships invaded Britain to fight King Alfred of Wessex. No one knows how big the Viking army was but if there were 20 men in each Viking ship, the army of AD892 numbered 6000!

This past fall, Jill Clements, Ph.D., associate professor of English and co-director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (AMRS) minor, delivered a ...