Jack’s Reviews > Viking Britain > Status Update

This is a terrific book! Properly gripping in the way it's written, but not in that overly stylised, 'modern' mode of narration that some popular historians use (well, occasionally he does this, but not intrusively). What I really appreciate is that it combines historical, archaeological, and literary evidence throughout, when usually you only get one or at most two of these. It creates a really vivid picture