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Nothing says Christmas like being given a glut of books to keep you occupied during the long nights of winter. Taking a lovely, pristine book, gently curling back the first page while sitting in front of the warm glow of a wood fire, snow pitter-pattering outside… Ah bliss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, not many people actually get to curl up in front of a roaring fire in their houses these days, and we barely have snow in England, but we get points for trying right? Luckily, there are many great books about Vikings and Saxons to keep us occupied, many which only came out in the last couple of years. So even without the idyllic setting, there’s still plenty to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In no particular order, here are our favourite current books about Vikings and the Early Middle Ages in general that will be a great addition to your 2022 reading list.<\/p>\n\n\n

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River Kings by Cat Jarman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1. River Kings<\/strong>: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk<\/strong> Roads<\/strong> by Cat Jarman. Now a Sunday Times best seller, this book manages to tread the fine line between being a well-written, easy to digest popular history book, and a book about modern archaeology. It explores the Viking world through the lens of an object found in Britain that can trace its origin across the North Sea, along the great rivers of Russia, up to the shores of the Black Sea and beyond. It forges a wonderfully detailed narrative, while supporting it with up to date thinking about trade networks, daily life and behaviour. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

2. The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings<\/strong> by Neil Price. This is basically the bible on the state of ‘Viking’ stuides within popular history. It takes everything we know about the world of Early-Medieval Europe and filters the guff. It tackles all the problematic projections of modern culture that has piled on the legend of the ‘Vikings’ and distils it into a neat, enjoyable volume that even well-read history enthusiasts will find illuminating. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Valkyrie by J\u00c3\u00b3hanna Kar\u00c3\u00adn Fri\u00c3\u00b0riksd\u00c3\u00b3ttir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

3. Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World<\/strong> by J\u00f3hanna Katr\u00ed\u00adn Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir. Since the incredible re-examination of a grave at Birka, Sweden with the possible burial of a female warrior, the Viking-nerds of the world have cried out for a serious look at the evidence and J\u00f3hanna has done a great job. Not since Judith Jesch’s amazing ‘Viking Women’ book back in the early 90s has a clearer picture of early-medieval women’s lives from birth to death been so clearly illustrated. It does what it says on the cover – this is one of the best books about Viking women.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

4. The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England <\/strong>by Marc Morris. Ok, it’s not all books about Vikings. We can’t have Vikings without Anglo-Saxons! Or should we say terms like ‘Viking’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon’ makes things easier to understand for us, but in reality the complexity of the relationships between people, lords, kings, the church and the invading Dane means that neither of those terms actually apply to the age? Thankfully, Marc Morris sweeps aside all the inventions of our Victorian ancestors where our ideas of Englishness tend to come from, and embelishes our understanding of the period in a fantastic tome that covers the retreat of the Romans, to the era of England brought by the Norman conquest. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The Viking Great Army and the Making of England by Dawn Hadley and Julian Richards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

5. The Viking Great Army and the Making of England<\/strong> by Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards. There’s been a few books about the ‘making of England’ in the last few years (including the excellent ‘Never Greater Slaughter’ by Michael Livingstone which narrowly avoided this list). Perhaps it’s an identity crisis in our post-Brexit psyche or a reaction against groups that seek to co-opt Early Medieval iconography to forward their own hateful purposes. Or, hopefully, it’s just bloody good scholary publishing, like this book, that explores the formative epoch of early-English history – the invasion of the Great Heathen Army, and the fight back that, while affecting the ordinary people of the British Isles greatly, was really a dynastic struggle between powerful families. <\/p>\n\n\n

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DK Findout! Vikings by Phillip Steele<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

6. DK Findout Vikings<\/strong> by Phillip Steele. Full disclosure, we’re in this one, including adorable pictures of our (now not so little) Viking baby! It’s a wonderfully assembled book for children full of pictures of real and reproduction objects (not all of them our ours, but the ones that are are georgiously presented!) It focuses on many different aspects of the era: daily life, religion, warfare and so on, and it’s all very accessible for 5-7 year old readers, and still relevant for older kids. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Norse
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

7. Norse Mythology<\/strong> by Neil Gaiman. Even word for word translations as well written, researched and presented as Jackson Crawford’s ‘The Poetic Edda’ are difficult for casual readers to digest. That’s where this comes in. Those same mythological stories from Norse literature are filtered through the imaginative brain of Neil Gaiman, and coerced (as they are living, breathing things, and thus must be convinced) into a beautifully realised compilation of stories. I love this book.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eat Like a Viking: Volume 2 by Craig Brooks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

8. Eat like a Viking! Volume 2: A Guide to Anglo Saxon & Viking Age Food & Drink<\/strong> by Craig Brooks. We loved the first book by the Saxon-Forager Craig Brooks<\/a> and we are so glad that he wrote a second one! Step into the culinary world of the Viking age with this new volume. Created as a book of ideas for using the ingredients that were available to our ancestors for cooking at re-enactment events (like the ones we do<\/a>), it has loads of amazing recipes that are just down-right delicious for any table.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Thraldom
Thraldom by Stefan Brink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

9. Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age<\/strong> by Stefan Brink. A little more at the scholarly end of things, this book covers something that is often avoided when talking about Vikings, or at best, sped over: slavery. The taking of men, women and children by force, then relocating them and selling them. This book demystifies the Viking-age practice throughout Europe, which has always been somewhat ambiguous to us as modern people, as our idea of slavery comes from the horrific exploitation of African peoples and the societal implications still felt today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Women of Power by Annie Whitehead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

10. Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England<\/strong> by Annie Whitehead. Well, it wasn’t just Scandinavian women who were using every opportunity afforded to them by a patriarchal society to better the lives of themselves and their families. In Britain, women such as \u00c6thelfl\u00e6d and Emma of Normandy were forging incredible paths worthy of the chronicles they were mostly edited out of… This excellent book explores the lives of women who are oft forgotten and had to fight for eery scrap in the power-dynamics of early medieval Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books about Vikings – Honorable Mentions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Alfreds Britain by Max Hastings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Viking Dress Code by Kamil Rabiega<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Never Greater Slaughter by Michael Livingstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Wanderer’s H\u00e1vam\u00e1l by Jackson Crawford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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