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Travel Light 4 - Micklegard
Numerous authors have dealt with the interactions between northerners (especially Vikings) and Micklegard (Byzantium) - for example I just finished reading Henry Treece's Viking trilogy in which the main character spends time there. Why the fascination with this? (and with the chain of river portages north from there back to Scandinavia). Is it just the contrast in cultures forced to meet and work together but with such different assumptions about life and society?