Review: A History of a Group of People
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
Prior to reading this, Vikings never seemed to have much depth to me.  Well, this book changed that.  It told the latest informative history of the Vikings which left me amazed at the way their story interweaves with all of European history. Who knew?  The Vikings were instrumental in influencing many areas of culture and anthropological studies have illuminated the fact that they were embedded in all of European culture.  Their incredible voyages took them up every major river in Europe, Northern Africa, Russia, and the British Isles, plus Iceland, Greenland and across the Atlantic to northern America.  Their language infiltrated all the others,  And they intermarried with the locals in each locale.  Just teasing out the threads of this story was very well done, and the story came alive.