Nick

“the past has a tendency to get boiled down to important dates when important things happened to important people. But the personal, intimate parts of people’s lives matter every bit as much as the famous, dramatic, narrative-defining ones. It’s through these little fragments of lives lived, the bits and pieces that fell between the cracks in the floorboards, that we are able to reach out through space and time, to the humans of the past. We listen to the brief flashes of their stories like blurred radio signals that cut out and pick up interference from other stations. Among the white noise, the vanished moments sucked into time, are lives lived, events experienced, emotions felt.”
― Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age