A review by zuleika
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price

adventurous challenging dark informative

3.0

Why I embarked on this 600+ page history of the Vikings I cannot tell you. Interesting aspects include Viking queerness, diversity in Scandinavia and the bits about chess. Unpleasant aspects include graphic descriptions of human sacrifice. I don’t think this will be a reread.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Animal death, Murder, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Rape, War, Genocide, Suicide, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Death, and Child death