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The Mercenary Earl: The Definitive Biography of Thorkell, the Jomsvikings, and the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire

The Mercenary Earl: The Definitive Biography of Thorkell, the Jomsvikings, and the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire

Maddox, Winston

Paperback

Series: A Biographical History of the Viking Age, Book 28

General Military HistoryScandinavian History

ISBN13: 9798235887053
Publisher: Winston Maddox Publishing
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

What if the man who shattered 11th-century England was neither a king seeking a crown nor a holy warrior on a crusade, but a cold-blooded military contractor whose loyalty belonged strictly to silver and steel?

For decades, mainstream histories of the Viking Age have reduced the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England to a predictable clash between crowned monarchs: King Ethelred the Unready, Sweyn Forkbeard, and Cnut the Great. Yet lurking behind every major geopolitical shift of the era was a colossal Scania warlord who commanded the most feared mercenary fraternity in northern Europe-Thorkell the Tall. In The Mercenary Earl, historian Winston Maddox dismantles popular mythologies to expose the terrifyingly modern realities of 11th-century professional warfare, where bloodlines mattered less than contract negotiations and entire kingdoms were bought, defended, and betrayed by elite military corporations like the Jomsvikings.

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