Viking Expert Breaks Down Famous Viking Movies & TV Shows

Archaeologist and leading Viking specialist, Neil Price looks at how Vikings are portrayed in popular films and TV shows. You can get his new book, The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings, here: https://amzn.to/3mj7gGt

Neil Price takes us inside the Norse mind and spirit-world, and across their borders of identity and gender, to reveal startlingly different Vikings to the barbarian marauders of stereotype. He cuts through centuries of received wisdom to try to see the Vikings as they saw themselves - descendants of the first human couple, the Children of Ash and Elm. He also reminds us of the simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of the past, of how much we cannot know, alongside the discoveries that change the landscape of our understanding. This is an eye-opening and surprisingly moving book.

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