With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
Phillip Pulsiano is late Professor of English at Villanova University.
Kirsten Wolf is Professor and Torger Thompson Chair at University of Wisconsin, Madison. She joined the Department in the fall of 2001, where she teaches a variety of courses on Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature and Scandinavian linguistics.