Award-winning & bestselling author at Vinci Books | Co-host of the Vikingology Podcast | Lecturer at Medievalists(dot)net | Learn more at cjadrien.com
@cjadrien.bsky.socialStill more accurate than Bloodaxe!
C.J. Adrien
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@cjadrien.bsky.social@cjadrien.bsky.socialIf you want to make fantasy films, then make fantasy films. Bastardizing a historical topic will not do 😡
@cjadrien.bsky.socialI hope you’ll enjoy my attempt to pronounce my book titles in German 🤣
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@cjadrien.bsky.socialAfter however many years of doing this I finally had a reel go kinda viral. 829k views and counting. Fairly exceptional for a history post. There’s obviously an appetite for what I’m doing. 🤩
@cjadrien.bsky.socialYou’ll see in this screenshot what I suppose is the algorithm telling me why that is 🤣 you can’t make this up.
@cjadrien.bsky.socialEver wondered what having a piece of content go viral would do for your book sales? I found out for you. Had a reel do 500k views today and while I am elated people are enjoying my content…book sales are about the same. Womp, womp. 🤣 Good reminder social content benefits the platforms first.
@cjadrien.bsky.socialNot sure the source…just found it on my phone. Felt relevant.
@cjadrien.bsky.socialMy favorite Viking Age artefact isn’t the Jorvik Coprolite. It’s this.
@cjadrien.bsky.socialCould it be that the beginning of the Viking Age was brought about by a kind of keeping-up-with-the-Joneses scenario between elites over who could fund the most lavish burial?
@cjadrien.bsky.socialI feel this, sometimes one does need a break from the Viking age! 
@cjadrien.bsky.socialDid the Vikings who sacked Nantes in 843 introduce themselves to their victims? Could be….
@cjadrien.bsky.socialCongrats to @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social co-host Terri Barnes for her appearance on the Grimfrost podcast! Check out the episode: youtu.be/Me6AsTtz-Dc?...
@cjadrien.bsky.socialThe Annales d’Angoulême say the men who sacked Nantes in 843 were ‘Vestfaldingi’ or men from Vestfold. For the writers of the annals to have known this, the Vikings either would have had to have a prior relationship with their victims, or they introduced themselves before attacking. #vikingsky