![]() The third, and last, part focuses on the colonies of the Vikings and their lasting influence over Europe, Asia and even North America. ![]() The second part deals with, like Price put it, what brings “Viking” in the Viking age - raids, economy, trade and all aspects of the so-called Viking diaspora. This included a really deep dwell into mythology and religion which I enjoyed enormously. ![]() The first one is dealing with the years preceding the Viking age (750-1050), the so-called Migration period, full of turbulent events like the fall of the Western Roman Empire, several eruptions of supervolcanoes and etc, and its focus is to show the reader how a pre-Viking-age person in Scandinavia probably viewed the world and his/her place in it. “Children of Ash and Elm” is separated into three parts. ![]() Neil Price is a Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala and his other books include “The Archaeology of Shamanism” (which has been on my to-read list for a couple of years now) and “The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia”, which I found about shortly before I started reading “Childrens of Ash and Elm”, and sounds like a must-have title too. ![]()
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