![]() ![]() Which is fine, but I would have preferred not to learn it in over 230 pages (in short, this book could have been way shorter). ![]() The only thing I learned from this book, was that the evidence is scarce and we just don't know. The book goes down many different routes (archaeological, runes, written sources, art, etc), but it just doesn't seem like there's enough to actually make a case on, and sometimes Jesch goes out on a tangent, where it's difficult to see the relevance to the main subject, i.e. This happens a little too often for my taste. But if the book doesn't give me a reason or a well-presented argument as to why that is the case, I just don't believe it. My problem is, that it seems to make a statement, then say 'we don't have enough evidence, so we can't possibly know for sure' and then continue on to settle the arguement, without providing any compelling evidence, except 'we must assume this is what it was like'. It's from the 1990s and clearly the field has expanded since then, but by 90s standards, I would say this is probably s good and thorough account. I've been wanting to learn more about this topic for a while now, and seeing as I kept reading so many conflicting articles on line, I thought I would give this book a go. ![]()
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