- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; New Ed edition (17 April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199262217
- ISBN-13: 978-0199262212
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.3 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,300,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[Sawyer's] work...puts the English-speaking reader for the first time in possession of the basic information painstakingly recorded by Scandinavian scholars, as well as providing an entirely fresh and convincing explanation of the Viking Age corpus.... A model of patient and dispassionate research in a potentially exciting and contested area."--Times Literary Supplement
"This is a stimulating book, challenging accepted interpretations and suggesting new sources for Viking Age social history."--Times Higher Education Supplement
Tom Shippey, TLS
"thorough statistical coverage, backed up by a seventy page "Catalogue" ... her work puts the English-speaking reader for the frst time in possession of the basic information painstakingly recorded by Scandinavian scholars, as well as providing an entirely fresh and convincing explanation of the Viking Age corpus ... Birgit Sawyer [has] offered models of patient and dispassionate research in potentially exciting and contested areas."
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COMPARED with western Europe, Scandinavia is poorly provided with written evidence for its early medieval history; there are no charters before 1085, and the earliest law codes and histories were compiled in the twelfth century (in Sweden not until the thirteenth century). Read the first page
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COMPARED with western Europe, Scandinavia is poorly provided with written evidence for its early medieval history; there are no charters before 1085, and the earliest law codes and histories were compiled in the twelfth century (in Sweden not until the thirteenth century). Read the first page
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Rarely does a book come out with such good work on the subject, due to its lack of commercial "sex appeal" for buyers.
Heck, this is not an 8th grade level book and you will need some knowledge beforehand to make your own decisions about its subject matter.
But a splendid book over all, a MUST have for serious Nordic study's I just wish the author had the time (and funding) to write much more on the area!
Heck, this is not an 8th grade level book and you will need some knowledge beforehand to make your own decisions about its subject matter.
But a splendid book over all, a MUST have for serious Nordic study's I just wish the author had the time (and funding) to write much more on the area!
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