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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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A definitive new history of the Vikings 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.
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"From these pages of violence, patriarchy and power struggle, individuals emerge, reassuring us that all aspects of human experience and identity can be found in the past."
"The author also considers the last generations of Vikings as pirates whose society, though founded on violence, was also definitively democratic ..."
"Price is never guilty of detached academic revisionism; instead he redraws the Viking world in all its strange and gory glory."
"In seeking the deeper origins of the Viking age, he deftly connects different times and places all the way back to the fall of the western Roman empire ..."
"Price diverges periodically from his tone of easy erudition to make conversational, enthusiastic asides."
"Price also expands the usual geographic boundaries that defined the Viking era and does a fine job of connecting events in the Baltic, North Sea, Atlantic, and Mediterranean worlds ..."
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