What a great book that covers the comprehensive history of Vikings. Some parts I'm not going to be were really dense. But some great information inside. There's bound to be something that will appeal to everyone. I appreciated that the author Neil Price took the time to explain that most knowledge we have of the Vikings came from their enemies like England and France. The author is an archeologist who has studied Vikings for twenty years and it’s easy to see he knows what he’s talking about. He does of course talk about Norse mythology and how that tied into their way of life as well and how brutal and savage the Vikings really well. ( )

What a great book that covers the comprehensive history of Vikings. Some parts I'm not going to be were really dense. But some great information inside. There's bound to be something that will appeal to everyone. I appreciated that the author Neil Price took the time to explain that most knowledge we have of the Vikings came from their enemies like England and France. The author is an archeologist who has studied Vikings for twenty years and it’s easy to see he knows what he’s talking about. He does of course talk about Norse mythology and how that tied into their way of life as well and how brutal and savage the Vikings really well. ( )

I really enjoyed how the author used myth to start and end this book. That was very well done. The rest of the book is certainly comprehensive, which it may have to be for the subject, but read at times like a textbook and bored me. I suppose you could say it was filled with too much information for my tastes. I will say that I did enjoy the author’s dry wit in places and some of the stories he related were interesting. Yet while I’m glad I read this to learn more about the Vikings than I ever cared to, I doubt I’ll ever read this again. ( )

I really enjoyed how the author used myth to start and end this book. That was very well done. The rest of the book is certainly comprehensive, which it may have to be for the subject, but read at times like a textbook and bored me. I suppose you could say it was filled with too much information for my tastes. I will say that I did enjoy the author’s dry wit in places and some of the stories he related were interesting. Yet while I’m glad I read this to learn more about the Vikings than I ever cared to, I doubt I’ll ever read this again. ( )

La época vikinga fue testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de los pueblos escandinavos. Comerciantes, piratas, exploradores y colonizadores vikingos viajaron desde América del Norte hasta las estepas asiáticas y navegaron por todos los mares. Pero, durante siglos, estos pueblos se nos han presentado a través de una óptica distorsionada para satisfacer los gustos de cronistas medievales, dramaturgos isabelinos, potencias imperialistas y muchos otros.

En Vikingos: la historia definitiva de los pueblos del norte, el prestigioso historiador Neil Price presenta por primera vez un retrato fidedigno de los vikingos basado en las últimas investigaciones y descubrimientos arqueológicos. En un épico recorrido que abarca desde la caída del Imperio romano al siglo xii, Price rastrea el origen de los vikingos, nos descubre su cultura y cosmología, y explica qué los impulsó a lanzarse a los saqueos que los hicieron temidos en toda Europa. Price nos muestra a los vikingos tal y como ellos mismos se veían. En sus páginas cobra vida un pueblo totalmente distinto a nosotros, glorioso pero terrible, nacido del invierno, la guerra y el comercio, sangriento a la vez que exquisito.

Vikingos es una historia monumental sobre uno de los periodos más fascinantes de la historia que cambió para siempre el rumbo del continente Europeo.