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Children of Ash and Elm : a history of the Vikings / Neil Price.

by Price, Neil S.

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Basic Books, 2020.

Civilization, Viking.

Viking antiquities.

9780465096985 (hc.)

Alternate title:

History of the Vikings

xviii, 599 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-571) and index.

"The Viking Age -- between 750 and 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. For a millennium, though, their history has largely been filtered through the writings of their victims. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology, their art and culture. From Björn Ironside, who led an expedition to sack Rome, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Price shows us the real Vikings, not the caricatures they've become in popular culture and history. Neil Price is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of Viking Age Scandinavia, and the archaeology of shamanism." -- Goodreads.

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