RaveSciencePrice’s latest book, Children of Ash and Elm, brings together multiple themes from previous scholarship and provides a narrative overview of new scholarship—which now spans disciplines from geoscience to saga studies—to provide previously untold stories and insightful perspectives on the Viking people ... Price also expands the usual geographic boundaries that defined the Viking era and does a fine job of connecting events in the Baltic, North Sea, Atlantic, and Mediterranean worlds ... Price is well known for making Vikings fun ... This book will not disappoint if you are looking for more on any of these topics; however, Price’s Vikings remain violent and lethal, and he is clear about their central role in the slave trade. He is likewise unflinching in confronting and debunking the invocations of the Viking legacy by Nazis and white supremacists ... Its scholastic merits aside, Children of Ash and Elm is also a wonderful read, with prose that flows like poetry in places and modern analogs that inspire creative thinking.
