Children of Ash and Elm is the ultimate Viking history from art and culture to politics and cosmology – by a brilliant archaeologist with decades of expertise.
The Viking Age – from 750 to 1050 saw the unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and fishermen, explorers and colonists, they stretched from eastern North America to the steppes of Asia. But for centuries, Vikings were seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists. , Nazis, and more. None of this captures the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture.

Drawing on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings from their own perspective: their politics, cosmology and religion, their physical world. surname. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs and practices to the lands they explored and the peoples they encountered, and in In this process, they themselves have been changed.

• Children of Ash and Elm

• A History of the Vikings
• By: Neil Price

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