The Children of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
A brief summary of The Children of Ash and Elm
The definitive and thoroughly compelling story of the Viking Age, describing the views, values, and violence of the Scandinavian raiders and traders, clearing up stereotypes of them, and analyzing their impact on the rest of the world.
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Historians • anthropologists • genealogists • archaeologists • truth seekers and myth busters • anyone interested in the old-world lives of northern Europeans
About the author of The Children of Ash and Elm
Distinguished professor Neil Price is the chair of archaeology at Sweden’s Uppsala University. For several decades, he has been studying the Vikings, as well as teaching and writing about them. Among Price’s acclaimed publications are Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings and The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia.
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