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A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word Viking brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of marauders from beyond the sea rampaging around the British coastline in the last gloomy centuries before the Norman Conquest. And it is true that Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent, violent place.

The alleged killer of five Capital Gazette employees mailed three threatening letters to Maryland courthouses and a law firm before Thursday’s shooting at the Annapolis newspaper, Anne Arundel County police said Monday.

"The Capital Gazette Shooting Suspect Mailed Threatening Letters Shortly Before Rampage, Police Say. One Arrived Monday." is from the July 02, 2018 National section of The Washington Post. It was written by Clarence Williams and Tom Jackman and narrated by Sam Scholl.