Thursday, July 10, 2014

Vikings: Life and Legend

Author: Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, Matthias Wemhoff, & Her Majesty Queen Margrethe of Denmark
Stars: 1
Review by: Mandy Apgar


This is one of those books that makes me want to go back to crosswords. Ample and well illustrated, this coffee table type edition goes into the history of the Viking people from a standpoint of that they really were not as all nasty as they are portrayed. Written by a mass of museum educators in preparation for a large exhibition, it falls into the trap of so many other museum volumes - all pretty pictures and no meat. Very little insight, or even thematic focus, is offered. Little information to a knowledgeable reader is new and several subjects are quickly glossed over - like religion, which I wanted more on but the section on it paid it little mind and seemed like mostly background.

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