The Northman's Fury - A History of the Viking World by Philip Parker

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Well I quite enjoyed it but it was a bit of a slog. I'd say only for those totally enthralled by Viking stuff.
Basically the Vikings TV series took lots of good stories and gave them all to Ragnar, when they were spread out over centuries and continents. Fair enough.
So Vikings in England, Scotland, Orkney. Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Nova Scotia, France, italy, Russia and Constantinople. Amazing. What happened to the settlement in Greenland - why did it disappear? Sounds grim.
So many wars were between Vikings who were raiding and the Vikings who had settled the same land previously. Vikings raided neighbours in Scandinavia for their stuff - well it all became a bit mixed as to who counts as them and who counts as us. 

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