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Ebook About The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertiseThe Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture.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 and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.Book Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Review :
Wonderful read, full of insights into Viking life that not only bring their culture to life, but are more in-depth than I've seen before. Tries to gain insight into the causes that contributed to their culture. If you want a good picture into the culture as well as the history, this book is immersive.But at one point it raised a huge red flag, in that it does contradict most other scholars on some key points and most notably...it contradicts some of what the Vikings had to say about themselves in their eddas and laws.For example, we know that Viking laws prohibited the wearing of clothing of the opposite sex. A man could be fined or divorced if he wore clothes that were too effeminate. There is no question these laws existed; they were written about and this record is accepted by all other scholars.Since they were so strict about gendered clothing, to the point of specifically making laws to prohibit it, for the author to 'guess' that vikings may have accepted the wholly modern idea of transgenderism is fictional hubris. That critically flawed 'guess' tainted the rest of the book for me, since the book contains other information we have not seen from other Norse scholars...then perhaps some of these other new insights are also fiction.The Vikings had additional laws that made it lawful to kill someone who insulted a man in a way that implied he was used as a woman for the purposes of sex. It WAS the Viking's most egregious insult...to insinuate homosexual bottoming for sex...and earned you death. Any such bottomers were literally the bottom dregs of society; enemies or slaves, and not 'men'. 'Lawful murder of', and 'acceptance of', share no overlapping space on a Venn diagram. To say otherwise is imagination at work once more.With this book, scholars and researchers seem to have lost their objectivity. Is that a trend for the future? This book may be a harbinger that marks a sea change for researchers...in that they no longer see a need to interpret an ancient culture through its own lens...or at the very least, an objective lens...but instead will modern-morphize ancient cultures by interpreting them through the ever-more-skewed lens of modern politics.Verdict: read and enjoy--- but with the caveat that you'll also have to read other reference books on Viking culture and history, and take the word of the Vikings themselves first wherever there are any contradictions made by a modern author Absolutely great first couple of chapters. Succeeds in the mission of portraying Vikings as they saw themselves rather than how later observers see them, which was the basic premise.Then, "how later observers see them" creeps in nonetheless. We are inflicted with points of view about gender fluidity and same sex couples. In a Viking book. They are Vikings in the 800-1000 AD period. Not known as a tolerant lot.Also quite anti-Christian, keeping up with the current fashion in academia. The transformation by Christianity is shown more or less as a blight on a pristine culture. No matter that the pagan funerals involved gang rape by elders of teen girls and human sacrifice. Christianity was somehow worse.And he throws in random conclusions with no references. Such as "In Scotland and the Isles, the transition to a medieval economy should really be placed in the late thirteenth century, mainly on the grounds of changes in the fishing industry and a serious shift to a deep-water catch." (p. 497 hard bound) Really? or was it the UFOs?Overall a good effort but better if it would keep to historic accuracy with less guessing and pontification. Read Online Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Download Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings PDF Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Mobi Free Reading Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Download Free Pdf Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings PDF Online Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Mobi Online Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Reading Online Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Read Online Neil Price Download Neil Price Neil Price PDF Neil Price Mobi Free Reading Neil Price Download Free Pdf Neil Price PDF Online Neil Price Mobi Online Neil Price Reading Online Neil PriceDownload PDF The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel By Lisa Wingate
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