Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. Neil Price. 2020. Basic Books, New York. xvii + 599 pp. $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-465-09698-5. $19.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-541-60111-6. $19.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-465-09699-2.
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The Vikings hold incalculable complex legacies — in research, the popular imagination, misuses of the past, and, not least, the history books. In Children of Ash and Elm , Neil Price synthesizes decades of scholarship and reweaves a history of the Vikings with an anthropological goal: understanding these people in the past as they saw themselves. He acknowledges the complications of the term “ Viking